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( "Les petites pudeurs n'existent pas pour les mères," remarks Goncourt, _Journal des Goncourt_, vol. iii, p. 5.)

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism

The style of the painter has been judged as analogous to the novelist's; yet, apart from a preference for the same subjects for the "modernity" of Paris, there is not much in Degas that recalls Goncourt's staccato, febrile, sparkling, "decomposed", impressionistic prose.

Promenades of an Impressionist

Jonathan Littell's The Wellwishers, initially published in France as Les Bienveillantes – he is the first American to win the Prix Goncourt – has been highly controversial.

Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction

Also in the running are the Australian writer David Malouf, and the Indian Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry, while the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi, the Goncourt prize-winning Lebanese author Amin Maalouf and the Italian playwright Dacia Maraini complete the shortlist.

Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature'

An Author by Any Other Name The newly announced winner of the Goncourt, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, is Alexis Jenni, a debut author so distant from Paris literary circles that at first it was thought his novel "L'Art français de la guerre" might have been penned by a famous writer using a pseudonym.

Bearing Witness to the War, Lest We Forget

You, Raoul de Goncourt, I shall punish as you deserve for being in such bad company.

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When I made immediately to begin with de Goncourt, Bohemond protested that I should rest a space.

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Goncourt, whose presence surprised me, he being too good and noble a man for the company he kept.

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By this time Pasquini and de Goncourt had sprung to him, and he was sinking into their arms.

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At this, de Goncourt showed distressed acquiescence.

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