Sarrasine

Honore De Balzac (20 March 1799 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. He is one of the founders of literary realism in European literature. His work had an influence on many writers such as Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. "La Comédie humaine" (The Human Comedy) is a collection of Honore De Balzac works which are describing French society in the time of the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
"Sarrasine" is a novel by Honore De Balzac, included in The Human Comedy and published in 1830. "Sarrasin" was one of the earliest Balzac's work that was published without pseudonym. The Narrator, who was a member of Paris haunt monde would tell the story of Sarrasin to Madame Rochefide, as a way to tempt her. Let's enjoy the amazaing story of Ernest-Jean Sarrasine.

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