Honore de Blazac's Sarrasine

Honoré de Balzac’s novella Sarrasine explores passion, desire, happiness and the relationship between art and life. The course will analyze this riveting framed tale in the context of 18th- and 19th-century Italian and French art and culture.

Suggested Reading: Balzac, Sarrasine (http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/rrushing/242/ewExternalFiles/Balzac.pdf)