Gonkur. Collection of artistic prose. Set in 3 volumes

Edmond and Jules de Gonkur - French writers, brothers, true creators of the novel as a genre. Their creative community is a kind of phenomenon in the history of world literature. With the surprisingly solid merger of two different writing individuals, the brothers created numerous novels, plays, research on the history and art of the 18th century and, finally, the famous “Diary”. In the works of writers, realistic and naturalistic principles of artistic reflection of reality were intertwined. The tradition of critical realism is associated with their interest in the depiction of modern life, the desire to carefully study it and convey it in their works. The race took stories and characters from their environment. So, in the book “Charles Demale” they described a familiar marital couple, in “Germinini Lasert”, the first great French novel from the life of a lower class, foreshadowing the appearance of the proletarian books of Zola, it is said about the slutty life that the housekeeper of the gonkurs, “Manett Salomon” once led Dedicated to the artists and the model, whom they personally knew. The heroines of their works are completely different in social status (the maid, young representative of the Higher Sveta, a prostitute, actress ..), but they are all shown during extreme tension, at the most difficult moments of her life