Sentence:  By its subject, the work is inscribed at the intersection of the romantic and realist traditions: on the one hand, Musset's La Confession d'un enfant du siecle and Vigny's Chatterton, but also the so-called <WSD>intimist</WSD> novel that, as Jean Bruneau notes, 'recounts events of daily life and asks the essential questions about them' and which, 'down-to-earth and often moralizing', prefigures the realist novel and the thesis novel; and on the other hand, the second bohemia, whose intimate journal in the romantic manner (as with Courbet's <WSD>intimist</WSD> painting of the world familiar to the painter) is converted into the realist novel when, with "Les Scènes de la vie de bohème" by Murger and especially "Les Aventures de Mariette" and "Chien-Caillou" by Champfleury, it registers in a faithful manner the often sordid reality of rawboned daubers' lives, their garrets, watering-holes and love affairs ('It is in reality the saddest live,' writes Champfleury in a letter of 1847, 'consisting of not dining, not having boots, and making about all that a quantity of paradoxes.') 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to or characteristic of the intimism genre; focussed on everyday domestic matters.