The Journal of the De Goncourts: Pages From a Great Diary, Being Extracts From the Journal Des Goncourt (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Julius West

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265254426 ISBN 13: 9780265254424

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Journal of the De Goncourts<br/><br/>IF Edmond de Goncourt (1822 — 96) and his brother Jules (1830470) are at present in a sphere in which literary interests are permitted, the relative dis repute into which their works have fallen must be a matter of sorrow, or, at any rate, of regret at the incalculability of the things of this life. There are few writers who have something new to say, or who have found some new way of saying some old thing, who expect immediate recognition. Stendhal predicted that his turn would come about seventy years after his death.* And there are few innovators, on the other hand, who do not believe that recognition will come, sooner or later. The de Goncourts fervently believed that they would be applauded both in their lifetime and after it, and they were almost completely wrong from either point of View. The genius of the sur vivor of the two brothers, after forty years of hard....

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265254426
• ISBN 13: 9780265254424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 501