Pages from the Goncourt Journals

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Pages from the Goncourt Journals (1850s, 1860s) – The Goncourt brothers
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The Goncourt brothers were Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, both French Naturalism writers. They jointly wrote their long Journal des Goncourt from 1851.

Substituting pathology for psychology, their impressionist style had an intense and original precision. —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goncourt_brothers [Dec 2006]