Edmond de Goncourt

Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Quotes Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal des Goncourt, 1855, translated from the French Alternative source: Joris-Karl Huysmans. Against Nature. Penguin books. Baudelaire had supper at the table next to ours. He was without a cravat, his shirt open at the neck and his head shaved, just as if he were to be guillotined. A single affectation: his little hands washed and cared for, the nails kept scrupulously clean. The face of a maniac, a voice that cuts like a knife, and a precise elocution that tries to copy Saint-Just and succeeds. Pages from the Goncourt Journals We asked ourselves whether, in these days of equality in which we live, there are classes unworthy the notice of the author and the reader, misfortunes too lowly, dramas too foul-mouthed, catastrophes too commonplace in the terror they inspire. Germinie Lacerteux She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others. Germinie Lacerteux External links Category:Historians from France Category:Journalists from France Category:Novelists from France Category:Art critics Category:Literary critics Category:Art historians Category:Diarists Category:1822 births Category:1896 deaths