0:00—The Faubourg Saint-Germain. 3:18—Sitting between opposites. 4:37—Salon culture. 9:44—Meet the Lantys. 13:01—Gothic conventions. 14:18—The gentleman in black. 15:45—Comte de Saint-Germain. 18:35—Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. 20:07—Quackeries. 25:00—The old man & Madame Rochefide. 28:56—Adonis on a lion skin. 30:34—Interlude.

30:46—Sarrasine’s boyhood. 32:24—Edmé Bouchardon. 33:28—Prix de Rome. 34:52—Reverance for Rome. 38:00—Jommelli & Zambinella. 41:29—Sketchy behavior. 42:15—Private happiness. 43:16—Lounging Zambinella. 47:23—Sexual assault. 48:20—Cardinal Cicognara. 49:40—One word. 51:35—The castrati tradition. 57:01—You monster. 1:00:05—Adonis & Endymion. 1:01:36—Fortunate singers. 1:03:55—Another possibility. 1:05:45—Fantastic vs. Realistic. 1:14:004—Interlude.

1:14:16—S/Z. 1:19:23—Antitheses. 1:20:40—A hole in the discourse. 1:22:35—Hastening & retarding. 1:23:58—Endymion/Adonis. 1:25:40—Aphanasis. 1:26:55—Historical characters. 1:27:47—Lubrication. 1:31:58—Madonna with raised eyes. 1:33:16—Kinky-haired scamp. 1:35:47—Fortunate castrati. 1:36:37—A sordid origin.

Texts:

Balzac, Honoré. “Sarassine.” The Girl with the Golden Eyes, and Other Stories. Translated by Peter Collier. Oxford Univ. Press, 2012, pp. 3-37.

Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. Hill and Wang, 1974.

Interludes: Niccolo Jommelli, Diodone Abbandonata (1747), performed by Teatro Filamonico di Verona Italy, March, 2021, www.operaonvideo.com.

Illustration: Honoré de Balzac, 1842, and Roland Barthes, 1979 (Wikipedia)

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