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Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks
Peter Brooks is the author of several books, including The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, Henry James Goes to Paris, and Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, as well as two novels, World Elsewhere and The Emperors' Body; and essays and book reviews in many places. He edited Balzac's The Human Comedy for NYRB, and also Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow. He is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale, and also taught recently at Princeton. He divides his life between Alexandria, VA and New Haven, CT.


What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

Peter Brooks on the Extraordinary Fictional Lives of the French Master
September 23, 2020  By Peter Brooks
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