Balzac's Old Goriot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873527606)

Old Goriot is not only the most read of Balzac's works but also one of the most commonly taught of all French novels. This collection of essays, as the editor says, offers "fresh interpretations that reflect on and revise the critical tradition." It thus conveys a sense of what Balzac's realist novel may mean to students and teachers more than a hudred and fifty years after its first publication.