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Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks is the author of several books, including the nonfiction volumes The Melodramatic Imagination , Reading for the Plot , Psychoanalysis and Storytelling , Troubling Confessions , Realist Vision , Henry James Goes to Paris , and Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris , as well as two novels, World Elsewhere and The Emperor's Body . He published Balzac's Lives with New York Review Books in 2020, and has edited two NYRB Classics, Balzac's The Human Comedy: Selected Stories and Vivant Denon's...See more