Pere Goriot

by Balzac, Honore de; Brooks, Peter; Raffel, Burton

• ISBN13: 9780393971668
• ISBN10: 039397166X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text is that of Burton Raffell's acclaimed 1994 translation. 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, Emile Zola, and Marcel Proust. "Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Ernst Robert Curtius, Albert Beguin, Erich Auerback, Georges Poulet, Michel Butor, Louis Chevalier, Pierre Barberis, Peter Brooks, Sandy Petrey, Nicole Mozet, and Janet L. Beizer.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	vii
The Text of Pere Goriot	1	(220)
Map: Paris in the 1820s	2	(219)
Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists	221	(40)
C. A. Sainte-Beuve
M. de Balzac	221	(3)
Charles Baudelaire
[Balzac's Genius]	224	(1)
Theophile Gautier
[Balzac's Modernity]	225	(3)
Hippolyte Taine
Balzac's Philosophy	228	(7)
Emile Zola
From The Naturalist Novel	235	(3)
Marcel Proust
Sainte-Beuve and Balzac	238	(7)
Henry James
The Lesson of Balzac	245	(16)
Twentieth-Century Criticism	261	(104)
Ernst Robert Curtius
Energy	261	(7)
Albert Beguin
Balzac the Visionary	268	(11)
Erich Auerbach
[Pere Goriot]	279	(10)
Georges Poulet
Balzac	289	(5)
Michel Butor
Balzac and Reality	294	(7)
Louis Chevalier
La Comedie humaine: Historical Document?	301	(3)
Pierre Barberis
The Discovery of Solitude	304	(10)
Peter Brooks
Balzac: Representation and Signification	314	(14)
Sandy Petrey
The Father Loses a Name: Constative Identity in Le Pere Goriot	328	(10)
Nicole Mozet
Description and Deciphering: The Maison Vauquer	338	(15)
Janet L. Beizer
Mirrors and Fatherhood in Le Pere Goriot	353	(12)
Honore de Balzac
A Chronology	365	(4)
Selected Bibliography	369