Pere Goriot: A Norton Critical Edition (Petits Classiques Larousse Texte Integral, #78) (World Classics (Abe Books)) (cliffs notes)

by Honore de Balzac

Peter Brooks (Editor) and Burton Raffel (Translator)

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The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris.

"Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac’s immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust.

"Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.

The critics include Ernst Robert Curtius, Albert Béguin, Erich Auerback, Georges Poulet, Michel Butor, Louis Chevalier, Pierre Barbéris, Peter Brooks, Sandy Petrey, Nicole Mozet, and Janet L. Beizer.
  • ISBN10 039397166X
  • ISBN13 9780393971668
  • Publish Date 2 April 1998 (first published 1 December 1960)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Edition Critical edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Language English