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Consumption is a central problem in Ludwig Tieck's 1838 novella Des Lebens Überfluß. This essay argues that autosarcophagy stands at the imaginary core of a utopian project of secession from nineteenth century social and material relations. Beginning with the tale of the self‐devouring criminal that Heinrich relates at the beginning of the novella, eating as a bodily act structures the novella's confrontation...
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