Sarrasine
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| Author(s) | Honoré de Balzac |
| Illustrator | Alcide Théophile Robaudi |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Series | La Comédie humaine |
| Publisher | Charles Gosselin |
| Publication date | 1831 |
| Preceded by | Facino Cane |
| Followed by | Pierre Grassou |
Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830 (the same year as he published La Peau de Chagrin), and is part of his Comédie Humaine.
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[edit] Commentary
Balzac's "Sarrasine" was not paid much attention prior to Roland Barthes' blow-by-blow structuralist/post-structuralist analysis of the text in his book S/Z, published in 1970. Barthes dissects the text in accordance to five 'codes' (hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic, cultural).
[edit] Text
Project Gutenberg English translation of Sarrasine: [1]
French Wikisource text of Sarrasine [2]
[edit] In popular culture
Sarrasine is the name of the Prince of Sydney in Vampire: The Masquerade
[edit] References
- Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Hill and Wang: New York, 1974.
- Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1981.
- Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol. I. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
- Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
- Livia, Anna. Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.
- Noble, Yvonne. "Castrati, Balzac, and Barthes' S/Z." Comparative Drama. Kalamazoo: Spring 1997. Vol. 31, Iss. 1. pp28–42.
- Sprenger, Scott. “Mind as Ruin,” Stories of the Earth, New York/Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2008, 119-136.
- Sprenger, Scott. “Sarrasine de Balzac ou l’archéologie du moi moderne,” La Plume et la pierre: l’écrivain et le modèle archéologique au XIXe siècle, Nimes, Champ Social, 2007, 291-318.
- Stoltzfus, Ben. Lacan and Literature : Purloined Pretexts. SUNY Press: Albany, 1996. p145.
