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Balzac seems to make reference to this idea early on in
Père Goriot when presenting the dramatis personae of the Maison Vauquer. Of Victorine Taillefer he writes: “A book might have been made of her story” (p. 21). The statement could apply to any one of the characters in the narrative, and indeed does apply to several. “A book might have been made of her story”: This is as true of Victorine Taillefer as it is of Madame de Beauséant (that book being
La Femme abandonnée [The Abandoned Woman, 1833] ) , as it is of the Duchesse de Langeais (see
La Duchesse de Langeais, 1834), or the Baron de Nucingen
(The Firm of Nucingen, 1838) , or the money-lender
(Gobseck, 1830), or Vautrin
(The Last Incarnation of Vautrin), and so on and so on. Had Balzac lived long enough (he died at fifty) and been inclined, he could and would have ma
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