this podcast is a must-read, i am glaina batnikova, and today we will discuss the work of annoré de balzac world literature, a french novelist, he wrote about 90 novels in his life, combining them into the cycle "the human comedy". and we are discussing this wonderful author today with the writer blogger malka lorrens. malka, hello. hi. malka, here is balzac, he is an expert, so to speak, in human souls, everything is dedicated to him, some class twists and turns, the attempt of young people, like izhen rastenyak, to break into high society, behind this we constantly see some dramas and money problems. what do you think? an expert in the topic of money in general money? balzac is a rare expert on the topic of money, because he never had any money, he was endlessly trying to make some startups, nothing worked out for him, because he naturally took out loans for them, all this is so familiar, right? i think he started writing something like that, he started publishing in about 1928, if i'm not mistaken, and he wrote somewhere around that time. he was like a madman , a novel a year, and there