Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while...

S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes' structural analysis of "Sarrasine", the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through...

study of marriage), but by 1830 Balzac began to group his first novels (Sarrasine, Gobseck) into a series entitled Scènes de la vie privée ("Scenes from...

his most prodigious work,[who?] the dense, critical reading of Balzac's Sarrasine entitled S/Z. Throughout the 1970s, Barthes continued to develop his literary...

intention in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls...

The Saracen Woman (French: La Sarrasine) is a Canadian drama film, released in 1992. Directed by Paul Tana and written by Tana and Bruno Ramirez, the...

Montréal, Brown Bread Sandwiches, Blast 'Em and The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine). The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the...

"Vespasian's axiom" is also referred to in passing in the Balzac short story Sarrasine in connection with the mysterious origins of the wealth of a Parisian...

family. It was heated, originally with a Saracen fireplace (cheminée sarrasine), later with an open fireplace (cheminée à hotte). This room was generally...

1970 Roland Barthes published S/Z, a detailed analysis of Balzac's story Sarrasine and a key work in structuralist literary criticism. Carlos Fuentes, sometimes...