Goncourt
[gawn-koor; for 2 also English gon-koo r]
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Contemporary Examples of goncourt
The Goncourt, the French literary prize, has lifelong judges—often themselves novelists.
When the Booker Prize was launched as the “British Goncourt” in 1969, it was met by a universal guffaw.
But at least the Goncourt, with its derisory 50NF cash reward, had clean hands.
Historical Examples of goncourt
This is a novel which was awarded the Goncourt prize in 1921.
The essay on the Goncourt is important, and we find in it typical dissociation.
InstigationsEzra Pound
And Goncourt assimilated this method with surprising results.
EgoistsJames Huneker
His characters, like Goncourt's, suffer from paralysis of the will, from hypersthesia.
EgoistsJames Huneker
Here she became acquainted with Zola, Goncourt, Daudet, and others.
The Modern Woman's Rights MovementKaethe Schirmacher
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