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Pere Goriot

byHonoré de Balzac

Who is this book for? Readers interested in classic literature and family dynamics.

Topics FamilySocial life and customsComing of Age
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
RomanceMinor Subplot
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.

Language

en

Published on

04/02/1998

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780393971668

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