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 is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale..
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 No Tomorrow .
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
