Burton Raffel

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Père Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes.

Burton Raffel

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Père Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes.

Awards

Winner — French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 1991

Books by Burton Raffel

  • Père Goriot: A Norton Critical Edition

    Honore de Balzac, Peter Brooks, Burton Raffel

    First Edition, Paperback, 1998

    The text is that of Burton Raffell’s acclaimed 1994 translation.
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    François Rabelais, Burton Raffel

    Paperback, 1992

    Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience.
  • Don Quijote: The History of that Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quijote de la Mancha

    Miguel de Cervantes, Burton Raffel, Diana de Armas Wilson

    Paperback, 1996

    “Fluent, strong, and engagingly readable. The narrative skill is such that we are soon willing to believe that Raffel is Cervantes reborn and writing in English.” —Guy Davenport
  • Don Quijote

    Miguel de Cervantes, Diana de Armas Wilson, Burton Raffel

    First Edition, Paperback, 1999

    The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish.