"Prefaces and literary manifestos" are selected texts written by the Goncourt brothers, prominent French writers and critics. In this collection, the authors express their views on literature, highlighting key aspects of their work and the role of literature in society. Their prefaces became a kind of manifestos of the literary direction and testify to the importance of words, art and intellectual development. "Prefaces and Literary Manifestos" reveal to the reader the depth of the authors' thoughts on the art of speech and reflect their relationship to modern literary reality.