What is the life of the Gonggur brothers?

Edmund de Goncourt, born in 1822, and Jules de Goncourt, born in 1830, were both born into noble families. Edmund joined the Ministry of Finance after graduating from high school, and soon left his job because he loved literature and art. From 1850, they created literature together. In the first few years, they wrote some unsuccessful plays and novels, such as light music Untitled and humorous story In 18XX. Starting from 1854, they devoted themselves to the study of French history and art history in18th century, and published Social History of France in the Period of the Great Revolution (1854), Social History of France in the Period of Government Control (1855) and Art in the 18th century.

After 1860, the Gonger brothers mainly devoted themselves to novel creation, and most of the important works were produced in the 1960s. Charles de Mayo (1860) and Magnet Salle (1867) aim to explain the necessity of literati's celibacy, but their real value lies in vividly describing the figures and fashions in the literary and art circles in Paris at that time. The most prominent social significance is Rene Nupland (1864), who directly exposed the low bourgeois morality through the personality differences between brother and sister. Jaimini lasseter (1865) is their masterpiece, which describes the process of a maid's depravity under the poison of bad social atmosphere.

Jules died in 1870, so Edmund stopped writing for many years before resuming his novel creation. His important works include Elsa the Girl (1877) and Dear (1884). The former tells the story of a reformed girl who was sentenced to death for being forced to kill. The latter is about the life of an aristocratic woman. The Gonggur brothers believe that novels should be centered on real life, so they should be carefully studied before writing. They are the founders of literary novels. However, they are obviously different from naturalistic novelists. In their creation, they pay attention to expressing their feelings with delicate writing and demand their own style, which is what they call "artistic writing".

1865 and 1875, respectively, the gungur brothers published their plays Ritter Mareschal and Motherland in Danger, and they also adapted some of their novels into plays. Their diaries, published in the 1950s, consist of 22 volumes, which are precious historical materials for studying the social life of the second and third empires in France, especially the literary and art circles.