Edmond de Goncourt
Birth date: 1822-05-26
Died: 1896-07-16
Edmond de Goncourt's Books
I'm reading through a selection of Geoff Dyer's essays and ran into this one on the Goncourts:http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview27It does express well what makes a collection thatg should be insufferable so compelling. I wouldn't want to hang out with the bro...
Hands-down the most entertaining book I've read all year. You need this in your life if you have any interest at all in French literature, the life of the mind, the creative process, or Gallic bitching on a monumental scale. Especially the last one. Every page, and I mean every page, of this book co...