Robert Alter

Robert Alter is an emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written widely on the European novel, particularly Balzac and Flaubert, and is the author of a critical biography of Stendhal. He lives in Berkeley.

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