The importance of Balzac in literature is very great: he expanded the scope of the novel and, being one of the main founders of the realistic and naturalistic trends, showed him new ways, which in many ways he went until the beginning of the XX century. His main view is purely naturalistic: he looks at every phenomenon as a result of the interaction of known conditions, known environment. According to this, Balzac's novels are not only an image of individual characters, but also a picture of the whole of modern society with the main forces that control it: the General pursuit of the benefits of life, the thirst for profit, honors, position in the light, with all the various struggles of large and small passions. At the same time, he reveals to the reader the whole behind-the-scenes side of this movement in the smallest details, in his everyday life, which gives his books the character of a burning reality. In the delineation of character he brings to the fore some of the main one, the dominant trait. For Balzac, every person is nothing more than"some passion, which serves the mind and organs and which is opposed by circumstances." Thanks to this, his characters get extraordinary, relief and brightness, and many of them have become common names, like the characters Moliere: so, Grande became synonymous with avarice, Gorio – fatherly love, etc.a Large place in his novels are women. With all his ruthless realism, he always puts a woman on a pedestal, she is always above the surrounding, and is a victim of the selfishness of a man. His favorite type-a woman 30-40 years.