"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 B guin, Erich Auerback, Georges Poulet, Michel Butor, Louis Chevalier, Pierre Barb ris, Peter Brooks, Sandy Petrey, Nicole Mozet, and Janet L. Beizer.