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Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal...
...intellectual curiosity, combined with the impassioned intensity and enhanced sensibility of the Romantics, their rebellion and sense of technical experiment, their awareness of living in a tragic age. The generation which reconciled these opposites was that of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Dostoevsky, of Whitman, Melville and Ruskin, of Edmond de Goncourt and Matthew Arnold, to which one might add Renan and Turgenev ... all these artists reach...
...Polish-born Anna Langfus is no exception. In The Lost Shore, she explains, she was aiming at a bestseller in the manner of Françoise Sagan. What she achieved was a novel simple and laconic in manner but as anguished as a muffled scream. It won the Prix Goncourt...
...roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...
...only 45, Gary has a chestful of medals as a World War II flying hero, serves his country as an able diplomat, knows after seven novels that he can write, and has won for one of them (The Roots of Heaven) the Prix Goncourt. All this, he maintains in this freewheeling autobiography, might not have happened at all had there not been Mama...