Pages from the Goncourt Journal

This selection draws on the journal kept by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, and continued by Edmond after Jules's death, from the 1850s into the 1890s. The entries record Paris literary and artistic life: dinners, studios, the theatre, illness, money, and talk about Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve, Zola, and the Goncourts' own novels. The form is a diary of observation and malice rather than an autobiography with a plotted life. The volume, drawn from a record first printed in the late nineteenth century, offers pages from the Second Empire and early Third Republic, not a memoir written after the fact.

Bound in white cloth blocked with a brown photographic design. Dark red slipcase.