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PAGES FROM
THE GONCOURT
JOURNALS
EDMOND AND JULES
DE GONCOURT
FOREWORD BY
GEOFF DYER
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
CLASSICS
PAGES FROM THE
GONCOURT JOURNAL
EDMOND and JULES DE GONCOURT (1822-1896 and
1830-1870) spent most of their lives in Paris, where they were at
the center of the city’s flourishing literary scene. The brothers were
members of the salon of Princess Mathilde, the niece of Napoleon
III, and, during the 1860s, were regulars at the “diners Magny,”
bi-weekly gatherings of writers and scientists held at a Paris restau¬
rant. Together the Goncourts were the authors of novels, and of a
number of pioneering studies of eighteenth-century history and
art, as well as plays and much else. After the death of Jules in 1870,
Edmond continued to write and to maintain the journal which he
began to publish in 1886. He also presided over a salon of his own.
At his death Edmond left funds for the establishment of the Aca-
demie Goncourt, which, since 1903, has issued the prestigious Prix
Goncourt.
ROBERT BALDICK was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford,
and of the Royal Society of Literature. He wrote a number of his¬
tories and biographies, and translated the works of a wide range of
French authors. He was a joint editor of Penguin Classics and one
of Britain’s leading French scholars until his death in 1972.
GEOFF DYER’s books include But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz,
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence, Yoga for People
Who Cant Be Bothered to Do It, the novel Paris Trance, and, most
recently, The Ongoing Moment (winner of the ICP Infinity Award
for writing on photography). In 2006 he received the E. M.
Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
PAGES FROM THE
GONCOURT JOURNAL
EDMOND
and
JULES DE GONCOURT
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by
ROBERT BALDICK
Foreword by
GEOFF DYER
NEW
YORK
REVIEW
BOOKS
New York

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