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The tragic love of a talented sculptor for an Italian castrato in the 18th-century Italy, one of Balzac’s most dense in images and meanings work of fiction that became one of more commented texts of the author in the second half of the previous century.
Sarazin is an emblematic text. Ignored at first, crammed among the voluminous novels of the Human Comedy, it was discovered again in the second half of the 20th century, starting a new course in the consciousness of readers and criticic. The novel Sarasin, one of Balzac’s most dense in images and meanings work of fiction, is a distinct moment in his work and marks the passage from the early to the his most mature period. Underestimated by the critics for more than a century -as it was not a “typical” balzacian narrative, and its central story, the tragic love of a talented sculptor for an talian castrato in the 18th-century Italy, was rather embarrassing – became one of more commented texts of the author in the second half of the previous century. Today, critics agree that it is one of his most modern works, both in the structure and in the wealth of the subjects it is developing, and continues to give rise to new interpretations from the fields of literary theory, gender studies, art analysis and so forth.
“Sarazin is one of the summits of the balzacian work.”
“A man in love, exploits the curiosity of his mistress for an enigmatic elder and a mysterious portrait, and offers her a contract: the truth in return for a night of love, a narrative in exchange for a body.”
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Honoré de Balzac
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