Germinie Lacerteux (French Edition) - Softcover

Goncourt, Edmond De; Goncourt, Jules De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595690670 ISBN 13: 9781595690678

Publisher: Mondial, 2007

Synopsis

In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Academie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains France's most significant literary prize. --- The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary "Naturalism" in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movement's most important representative in his cycle of novels "Les Rougon- Macquart". --- Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, "Germinie Lacerteux" (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-live of the novel's Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.

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About the Author

EDMOND DE GONCOURT (1822-1896) and JULES DE GONCOURT (1830-1870) spent the majority of their lives in Paris. Having attended the finest schools, the Goncourts formed one of the most famous literary partnerships. After an unsuccessful novel and some attempts at drama, they began publishing books on various aspects of art and society in eighteenth-century France. Between 1860 and 1869 the brothers published six novels which they described as ""history which might have taken place"" and which were as carefully documented as their historical works.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mondial
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1595690670
• ISBN 13: 9781595690678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Moore Andrew