ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS BY H. DE BALZAC ("LILY IN THE VALLEY")
The article on the basis of the novel «Lily in the Valley» solves the problem of autobiographism of Balzac. It discusses different approaches to literary and autobiographical narrative methods of self-representation in the text. The paper presents several possible interpretations of the phenomenon of the author: the real person and impersonal authority, that finds itself in the text. The article indicates the features of the authorial «I» in the works of Balzac and its organizing role in the novelistic series «The Human Comedy.»