Sarrasine: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sarrasine, credited to Honore de Balzac (transl. Clara Bell and others), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Sarrasine, by Honoré de Balzac. Read by Chip. Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor's shocking journey to his coming of age. As one of the "fathers of realism" Balzac painted with his words a vivid portrait of life in the swirling salons of Europe at the end of the Bourbon monarchy, and we follow Sarrasine from France to Italy in search of both his métier and his muse. However it is also the story of La Zambinella, an Italian singer with whom Sarrasine falls madly and passionately in love. But that passion holds a secret which Sarrasine spies too late.(Summary by Chip)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sarrasine
• Author credits: Honore de Balzac (transl. Clara Bell and others)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 1
• Listed recording duration: 1:39:03

Catalogue topics

• short work
• human comedy
• art

Track guide

1. Sarrasine — 1:39:04

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