THE DE GONCOURT DIARY.
PUBLICATION PROHIBITED. SCANDAL AND LIBEL. LONDON, Aug. 12. The diary of tho De Goncourt brothers, says the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Mail, has been found too full of scandalous anecdotes concerning wellknown living people to allow of publication as directed in Edmond de'Goncourt's will. The Government Censor reports that thd daiiy contains much fiction, in addition to indecency and libel. After being sealed the manuscript was returned to the secret archives of ttio French National Library. The brothers Dc Goncourt (Edmond, 1822-96, and Jules, 1830-70) afford perhaps the. most famous instance of literary collaboration. In writing their novels which include " Genninio Lacerteux" and " Mme. Gervaisais," each composed the same incident independently, and the two versions were afterwards moulded' into one. After Jules' death Edmond wrote "La Faustin" and other novels and books on art.
The Dc Goncourts were pioneers of the naturalistic school, and attempted to set forth the naked facts of life. They kept a diary on which Edmond based the much-discussed " Journal des Goncourt, 1887-«2"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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173THE DE GONCOURT DIARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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