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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... Dead , while I love it , and long for it , and mourn for it , Here , in the genuine sense , as truly as the floor I stand on ? But that same WHERE , with its brother WHEN , are from the first the master - colours of our Dream - grotto ...
... dead fleeces of sheep , the bark of vegetables , the entrails of worms , the hides of oxen or seals , the felt of furred beasts ; and walk abroad a moving Rag - screen , overheaped with shreds and tatters raked from the Charnel - house ...
... of the Northwind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer. How came it to evaporate, and not lie motionless? Thinkest thou there is aught motionless; without Force, and utterly dead? " As I rode through the Schwarzwald , I said XI ...
... dead and lost , there are Forces in it and around it , though working in inverse order ; else how could it rot ? Despise not the rag from which man makes Paper , or the litter from which the earth makes Corn . Rightly viewed no meanest ...
... not your very Attention a Stretching - to ? The difference lies here : some styles are lean , adust , wiry , the muscle itself seems osseous ; some are even quite pallid, hunger-bitten and dead-looking; while others again glow in the.