Honoré de Balzac, a prominent figure in French literature, was born in Tours, into a not very wealthy family of a civil servant, descended from a peasant family. He could not fully realize his ambitious plan, but the 95 novels written for the "Comedy of Humanity" reveal the true face of French society at that time, which Balzac himself called "the great comedy of our century" or "the devil's comedy". In addition to the 95 novels united under the title "Comedy of Humanity", Balzac created dozens of works, five plays, critical articles and a collection of short stories "Ominous Stories". Among these works is the work "The Prayer of an Atheist". This article contains information about the forms of appeal to women in the work "The Prayer of an Atheist".

Honoré de Balzac, “The Prayer of the Atheist”, novella, “The Human Comedy”,

Adamson, Donald (1986). "Le Père Goriot devant la critique anglaise". L'Année balzacienne (in French). 7. ISSN 1969-6752. In L'Année balzacienne. II. 20. Garnier Frères. 1999. ISBN 978-2-13-050961-5.

Brooks, Peter (2005). Realist Vision. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10680-7.

Saintsbury, George (1911). "Balzac, Honoré de" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 298–301.

Stowe, William W. (1983). "Systematic Realism". In: Honoré de Balzac. Edited by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 0-7910-7042-5.

The story "Gobsek" is in the Ziyouz library.

Zweig, Stefan (1946). Balzac. New York: Viking Press.