Goncourts

In your issue of February 17 Garry Wills writes: "John Russell, in his New York Times review of the Greuze exhibit, said it was the high esteem of the Goncourts that made some critics look again at Greuze; which proves Russell had not read the Goncourts…."

Reading the Goncourts Russell, John 1977

_The Goncourts were the sons of a cavalry officer, commander of a squadron in the Imperial army.

Renée Mauperin Edmond de Goncourt 1859

I was sitting with a french scholar of Dumas at a cafe in Switzerland, and I mentioned that one of my favourite writers was actually Dumas fils, the son of Dumas, and the Goncourts.

Testing the Weird 2010

You can download a pdf of it here and eavesdrop on the dinner conversation of the Goncourts, Flaubert, and Turgenev.

Pages from the Goncourt Journals Reviewed in the NY Sun 2006

You can download a pdf of it here and eavesdrop on the dinner conversation of the Goncourts, Flaubert, and Turgenev.

A Different Stripe: 2006

Before even the de Goncourts he had admired Chinese porcelain and Japanese prints and his own exquisite intuition strengthened by Japanese example had shown that his impression of life was more valuable than any mere transcript of it.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

April 29th, 2006 at 2:49 pm but what will the Goncourts say about it afterwards?

Firedoglake » FDL Sunday Book Salon Opens Tomorrow 2006

Even the names opened for him a world of possibility beyond the surrounding dullness and domesticity and patriotism and religiosity: Sainte-Beuve, the Goncourts, Mérimée, Renan.

The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

Thus the journal of the Goncourts made me discover that Elstir was none other than the “M. Tiche” who had once inflicted upon Swann such exasperating lectures at the Verdurins.

Time Regained 2003

Goncourts not enlightened me, I knew how often I had been unable to give my attention to things or to people, whom afterwards, once their image had been presented to me in solitude by an artist, I would have gone leagues and risked death to rediscover.

Time Regained 2003