Un début dans la vie
Illustration from an 1897 edition by Oreste Cortazzo | |
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
|---|---|
| Original title | Un début dans la vie |
| Translator | Katharine Prescott Wormeley |
| Language | French |
| Series | La Comédie humaine |
| Genre | Scènes de la vie privée |
| Publisher | La Législature |
Publication date | 1842 |
| Publication place | France |
| Preceded by | Modeste Mignon |
| Followed by | Albert Savarus |
Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine.
The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furne edition of La Comédie humaine. Un début dans la vie was the fifth work in Volume 4, or the twenty-fifth of the Scènes de la vie privée.