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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.923
- isbn: 9782251661919
- eisbn: 9782821828766
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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roman romantisme (littérature) naturalisme (littérature) Paris littérature américaine American literature naturalism (literature) Paris novel romantism (literature) Literature LIT004020 DSBSujets proches
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Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « The Goncourts », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.923
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We end with the sensation of a closed room, of a want of ventilation; we long to open a window or two and let in the air of the world. If Balzac, Sainte-Beuve and most French writers are intensely French, the Goncourt brothers are essentially Parisian. They are the most “limited” writers in time and in space James ever met: “If time with these writers,” he writes, “terminates at about 1730, space comes to a stop at the limits of Paris.” Following the fashion of the time they proceed as painte...