Anh em nhà Goncourt

Anh em nhà Goncourt () bao gồm Edmond de Goncourt (, 1822–96) và Jules de Goncourt (, 1830–70), là hai nhà văn Pháp thế kỷ XIX theo trường phái Tự nhiên.

Tiểu sử
Họ bắt đầu sự nghiệp văn chương bằng việc ghi chép về kỳ nghỉ chung với nhau. Sau đó họ đã cho xuất bản sách về xã hội và nghệ thuật của Pháp và Nhật Bản ở Thế kỷ 18. Các tác phẩm của họ (Portraits intimes du XVIIIe siècle (1857), La Femme au XVIIIe siècle (1862), La du Barry (1878), and others) are made entirely out of documents, autograph letters, scraps of costume, engravings, songs, the unconscious self-revelations of the time. In their volumes (e.g., Portraits intimes du XVIII siecle), they dismissed the vulgarity of the Second Empire in favour of a more refined age. They wrote the long Journal des Goncourt from 1851, which gives a view of the literary and social life of their time.

When they came to write novels, it was with a similar attempt to give the inner, undiscovered, minute truths of contemporary existence. They published six novels, of which Germinie Lacerteux, 1865, was the fourth. It is based on the true case of their own maidservant, Rose Malingre, whose double life they had never suspected. After the death of Jules, Edmond continued to write novels in the same style.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

They are buried together (in the same grave) in Montmartre Cemetery.

Legacy
Edmond de Goncourt bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. Since 1903, the académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt, probably the most important literary prize in French literature.

The first English translation of Manette Salomon, translated by Tina Kover, was published in November 2017 by Snuggly Books.

Works
Novels
Sœur Philomène (1861)
Renée Mauperin (1864)
Germinie Lacerteux (1865)
Manette Salomon (1867)
Madame Gervaisais (1869)
and, by Edmond alone:
La Fille Elisa (1878)
Les Frères Zemganno (1879)
La Faustin (1882)
Chérie (1884)

Other
Journal des Goncourt, 1851-1896
Portraits intimes du XVIIIe siècle (1857)
La Femme au XVIIIe siècle (1862)
La du Barry (1878)
L’Art du XVIIIe siècle (French Eighteenth Century Painters) (1859–1875)

Ghi chú

Tham khảo 
Kirsch, Adam "Masters of indiscretion" in The New York Sun ngày 29 tháng 8 năm 2006

Liên kết ngoài 

French literary critics
Literary collaborations
Sibling duos
French male writers