Pere Goriot: A Norton Critical Edition

Pere Goriot: A Norton Critical Edition

<p><strong>The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.</strong></p> The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris.<br /><br /> "Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac’s immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust.<br /><br /> "Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.<br /><br /> 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.