Pere Goriot - A Norton Critical Edition

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.

About the author

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was born in Tours. By the time of his death, he had written over one hundred novels, novellas, and plays, all the while working as a journalist. Colonel Chabert is one of the "Scenes from Private Life," which is a part of Balzac's well-known life-long project, La Comedie Humaine.

Summary

The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.

Product details

• Authors: Honore de Balzac, Honore De Balzac
• Assisted by: Peter Brooks (Editor), Peter (Princeton University) Brooks (Editor), Burton Raffel (Translation), Burton (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus) Raffel (Translation), Professor Burton (Distinguished Arts and Humanities Raffel (Translation)
• Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.1997
• EAN: 9780393971668
• ISBN: 978-0-393-97166-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 213 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature