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 DavenportDon 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.