Pere GoriotThe 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, mile Zola, and Marcel Proust. "Twentieth Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Ernst Robert Curtius, Albert Bguin, Erich Auerback,