It is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Sarrasine features the use of first person narration. An unnamed, male, narrator tells the story in first person. Balzac’s use of a frame story is the most significant narrative strategy is "Sarrasine." "Sarrasine" is marked by oppositions.

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled Human Comedy, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous.