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Booker vs. Goncourt; or, when silence is a duty.
When I was a child, I tormented nay father with questions such as "Which is the best orchestra in the world?" and "Who was the greatest English writer?" In my childish way, I believed such questions were susceptible to unequivocal answers, and if my father, exasperated by nay importuning, were foolish enough to answer ex cathedra, as was his natural inclination, I would immediately demand to know which was the second best and who was the second greatest: for it seemed to follow, according to my then way of thinking, that if there were a best or greatest, there must be a second and third best and greatest, and so on ad infinitum.
No doubt it is the inner child in ...
- The 50-franc bonanza. (Prix Goncourt, French prize for literature)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 24, 1990 700+ words
...most celebrated and controversial is the Prix Goncourt. It is to the French novel what its much younger...has for once heeded the intentions of Edmond Goncourt who set up the prize in 1903. Goncourt stipulated that it should go to a young prose...
- Policing prostitutes: adaptations and reactions to Edmond de Goncourt's La...
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Ashley, Katherine September 22, 2004 700+ words
Edmond de Goncourt's 1877 novel, La Fille Elisa, is...events and stems from a visit by the Goncourt brothers to a prison at Clermont d...d'atelier, is as much an attack on Goncourt's work as it is on Naturalism in general...
- Journal des Goncourt.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Romanic Review Ippolito, Christophe November 1, 2007 700+ words
Journal des Goncourt. Tome I: 1851-1857. Edition critique...modernisee, elle respecte la langue des Goncourt et celle du dix-neuvieme siecle...analysent, expliquent la perspective des Goncourt. Ainsi la note de synthese sur Flaubert...
- Rufin wins Goncourt prize.
- News wire article from: United Press International November 5, 2001 700+ words
...Christophe Rufin captured the prestigious Goncourt literary prize Monday, prevailing in...Rouge Bresil." This is the second Goncourt prize for Rufin, former vice president...ruined by ideas." In the past, the Goncourt has been awarded to such literary stars...
- Pages from the Goncourt journals.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
159017190X Pages from the Goncourt journals. Goncourt, Edmond de and Jules de Goncourt. Ed. and trans. by Robert Baldick. New York Review Books 2007 434 pages $16.95 Paperback New York Review Books classics PQ2261 Once they established...
- La Notion d'artiste chez les Goncourt (1852-1870).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Hobbs, Richard July 1, 2002 700+ words
La Notion d'artiste chez les Goncourt (1852-1870). By STEPHANIE CHAMPEAU...clear from her choice of three divergent Goncourt texts as her starting-point. Two are...marginalization. Although these three Goncourt texts are foregrounded by Champeau...
- Tarte a l'intello. (Prix Goncourt)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 19, 1988 700+ words
...merely political. As this year's Prix Goncourt has proved, it is also intellectual...bandwagons. Mr Levy was shortlisted for the Goncourt for his latest book, "Les Derniers...should please him almost as much as any Goncourt, or any stuffy words of praise out of...
- Nineteenth-Century nostalgia for eighteenth-century wit, style, and Aesthetic...
- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies Forrest, Jennifer September 22, 2005 700+ words
The Goncourt brothers are famous for their pithy misogynistic...their observations: "Ce que disent les Goncourt des femmes est d'une banalite atroce...offered by the nineteenth century. The Goncourt brothers cite the years from the death...
