Sarrasine

by Honore de Balzac, Clara Bell (Translator), Thomas Hudson (Photographer)

Overview

Sarrasine, the only son of a rich lawyer who, rather than following in his father's path as the family wants, becomes an artist, eventually having his talent as a sculptor recognized by Bouchardon. He is generally more interested in art than in women, but on a trip to Italy falls in love with the opera star, La Zambinella, who serves as the model for his most perfect statue. When he learns that Zambinella is a castrato, he tries to kill Zambinella and is himself killed instead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781983938412
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/17/2018
Pages:	38
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.08(d)

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Romanfleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815-namely the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848).