Jules de Goncourt

Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870) was a French writer, critic, and art historian who worked closely with his younger brother Edmond on novels, journals, and studies of art.

Edmond de Goncourt: Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) was a French writer who collaborated extensively with his younger brother Jules. Jules’s literary career was inseparable from the work he composed with Edmond.
Germinie Lacerteux: Germinie Lacerteux is an 1865 novel by the Goncourt brothers about a servant’s hidden life and downfall. Its preface sets out the brothers’ case for treating working-class life as serious novelistic material.
Théophile Gautier: Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and art critic associated with the doctrine of art for art’s sake. The Goncourts admired Gautier, whose aesthetic commitments resonated with their writing on art.
Prix Goncourt: The Prix Goncourt is a major French literary prize, first awarded in 1903 by the Académie Goncourt. Edmond founded the academy and prize in memory of the literary partnership he shared with Jules.
Naturalism: Naturalism was a literary movement that applied observation and environmental determinism to the depiction of human life. The brothers’ fiction helped shape a movement later associated with detailed social observation.
Renée Mauperin: Renée Mauperin is an 1864 novel by the Goncourt brothers about a young woman in a bourgeois family. It exemplifies the brothers’ fiction before their landmark naturalist preface.
Émile Zola: Émile Zola (1840–1902) was a French novelist and critic who became naturalism’s leading theorist and practitioner. Zola recognized the brothers’ fiction as a precedent for his own naturalist program.
Académie Goncourt: The Académie Goncourt is a French literary society established by Edmond de Goncourt’s bequest. Its creation transformed the brothers’ shared literary legacy into a continuing institution.
Journal des Goncourt: The Journal des Goncourt is the brothers’ extensive diary, published in volumes after Jules’s death. Its shared entries preserve Jules’s observations and the brothers’ account of literary life.
Manette Salomon: Manette Salomon is an 1867 novel by the Goncourt brothers centered on artists and Parisian artistic life. Its art-world setting draws on the brothers’ sustained interest in painting and artistic practice.

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