ZOLA EmileLivre Rare Book
Renee Mauperin The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 76
1919rif. 2349668New York: Boni and Liveright Inc. / The Modern Library 1919. Reprint. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Brodzky Horace. 1919-25 printing of Toledano 076.1 binding style 2. Front edge along spine slightly abraded minor damage to binding edge of p. 102. 234 10 pp. Flexible brown boards gilt titles and rules Horace Brodzky illustrated endpapers. Introductory note on the authors by Emile Zola. "The Goncourt brothers were Edmond de Goncourt 1822-96 and Jules de Goncourt 1830-70 both French Naturalism writers. They formed a partnership that 'is possibly unique in literary history. Not only did they write all their books together they did not spend more than a day apart in their adult lives until they were finally parted by Jules's death in 1870'. Their career as writers began with an account of a sketching holiday together. They published books on aspects of eighteenth-century French art and society eg Portraits intimes du XVIII siecle dismissing the vulgarity of the Second Empire in favour of a more refined age. They also wrote the long Journal des Goncourt from 1851 which gives an interesting view of the literary and social life of their time. They are often not only caustic but even spiteful. They published six novels of which 'Germinie Lacerteux' 1865 was the fourth. It is based on the true case of their own maidservant Rose Malingre whose double life they had never suspected. Substituting pathology for psychology their impressionist style had an intense and original precision. Boni and Liveright, Inc. / The Modern Library hardcover books
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