THE ATHENAEUMSartor ResartusThomas Carlyle
Philosophy
Sartor Resartus
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCarlyle’s strange book, first printed in Fraser’s Magazine in 1833 and 1834, pretends to be an English editor’s account of a German professor’s treatise on clothes, Die Kleider, ihr Werden und Wirken. The professor, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh of the University of Weissnichtwo (“Know-not-where”), is as imaginary as his book. Through them Carlyle argues that everything people make, from coats to churches and states, is clothing for something underneath.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- The Room of Books Within Books
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1051. In the public domain in the United States.