| Pere Goriot Contributor(s): De Balzac, Honore (Author), Brooks, Peter (Editor), Raffel, Burton (Translator) |
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ISBN: 039397166X ISBN-13: 9780393971668 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: 'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97019938 |
| Lexile Measure: 1180 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.15" W x 8.4" (0.81 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brooks, Peter: - Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.Balzac, Honore De: - 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.De Balzac, Honore: - 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.Raffel, Burton: - Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Père Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes. |