Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, premier volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire

by Edmond de Goncourt

"Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième série, premier volume)" by Goncourt and Goncourt is a diary written between 1850 and 1896. The brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt chronicled Paris's literary and artistic world through candid observations of their contemporaries. Their entries capture bitter rivalries, friendships, and conversations with figures like Flaubert, Zola, and Baudelaire. The journal's often critical tone strained relationships when published, revealing jealousies and disappointments alongside intimate portraits of nineteenth-century French cultural life.