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Gobseck
Sign in to saveGobseck is an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) which is in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
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- Gobseck
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- 1897 illustration from Gobseck (Mme de Restaud, Gobseck and Derville) by Édouard Toudouze
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- Honoré de Balzac
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- France
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- French
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- La Comédie humaine
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- 1830
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- Béatrix
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- La Femme de trente ans
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Gobseck is an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) which is in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Gobseck first appeared in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under the title ''l'Usurier (The Usurer), and then in August 1830 in the periodical Le Voleur. The actual novella appeared in a volume published by Mame-Delaunay under the title Les Dangers de l'inconduite. This novella would appear in 1835 under the title of Papa Gobseck in a volume published by Madame Charles-Béchet. The definitive title of Gobseck originated in 1842 in the Furne edition of La Comédie humaine.
==Plot== The plot of Gobseck'', set during the French Restoration period of 1815 to 1830, is framed within a conversation between lawyer Maître Derville and the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu. Derville tells a story which focuses on Anastasie de Restaud, née Goriot. Anastasie, the daughter of a rich bourgeois who has married into the aristocracy, is bored by her marriage, which is loveless and passionless.