Sartor ResartusStandard Ebooks Sartor Resartus was a strange and new book when it was first published in 1833, and in many ways it remains a strange and new book today. The bulk of the novel takes the form of the a commentary on the life and works of the fictional Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a sort of renaissance-man German philosopher who develops a “Philosophy of Clothes.” The commentary is composed by a fictional English commentator, known only as the “Editor”; the Editor claims to have translated many of Teufelsdröckh’s ideas and quotes from German. As the commentary progresses, the Editor receives a bag of paper scraps on which are written various autobiographical fragments from Teufelsdröckh’s life. The Editor’s attempts to organize and interpret these scraps forms the second part of the novel. The work is multi-faceted: sometimes a parody, sometimes a comedy, sometimes a satire, and sometimes seriously philosophical. Some critics consider it an early existentialist text. At the very least its unique structure and use of meta-narrative is hugely influential to modern literature; Borges was said to have memorized entire pages, and modern texts like Nabokov’s Pale Fire borrow liberally from the concept of a meta-narrative organized on scraps of paper. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks. |
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... prophetic Book , the lexicon of which lies in Eternity , in Heaven ? -Let any Cause - and - Effect Philosopher explain , not why I wear such and such a Garment , obey such and such a Law ; but even why I am here , to wear and obey ...
... prophetic Hebron ( a true Old - Clothes Jewry ) where he now dwells ? " To all these natural questions the voice of public History is as yet silent . Certain only that he has been , and is , a Pilgrim , and Traveller from a far Country ...
... prophet, priest and king, and an Obedience that makes us free. The young spirit has awakened out of Eternity, and knows not what we mean by Time; as yet Time is no fast-hurrying stream, but a sportful sunlit ocean; years to the child ...
... Prophet and a double- barrelled Game-preserver: the inner man of the one has been fostered into generous development; that of the other, crushed- down perhaps by vigour of animal digestion, and the like, has exuded and evaporated, or at ...
... Prophet's inspired Message , and how it makes and unmakes whole worlds , I shall forbear mention : but cannot the dullest hear Steam - engines clanking around him ? Has he not seen the Scottish Brassmith's IDEA ( and this but a ...