OEUVRES COMPLÈTES. OEUVRES ROMANESQUES SOUS LA DIRECTION DE ALAIN MONTANDON. TOME 2. SOEUR PHILOMÈNE

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In Soeur Philomène (1861), Edmond and Jules Goncourt (who spared no effort to research unfamiliar places such as a convent and a hospital) display their consummate mastery over an aesthetics of visual understatement. This early jewel of naturalism seems to assert that faith is a feminine and neurotic phenomenon.

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