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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... nowise apprehended, that any personal connection of ours with Teufelsdröckh, Heuschrecke, or this Philosophy of Clothes can pervert our judgment, or sway us to extenuate or exaggerate. Powerless, we venture to promise, are those private ...
... in General,” they doubtless considered premature; on which ground too they had only established the Professorship, nowise endowed it; so that Teufelsdröckh, “recommended by the highest Names,” had been promoted thereby.
... nowise for her pearl bracelets and Malines laces : in his eyes , the star of a Lord is little less and little more than the broad button of Birmingham spelter in a Clown's smock ; “ each is an implement , " he says , “ in its kind ; a ...
... Nowise , courteous reader ! The Professor knows full well what he is saying ; and both thou and we , in our haste , do him wrong . If Clothes , in these times , " so tailorise and demoralise us , " have they no redeeming value ; can ...
... nowise in contact with him : neither are those ministering Sheriffs and Lord - Lieutenants and Hangmen and Tipstaves so related to commanding Red , that he can tug them hither and thither ; but each stands distinct within his own skin ...