Sartor Resartus (meaning "The tailor re-tailored") is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in 1833–34 in Fraser"s Magazine. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as "god-born devil-dung"),[1] author of a tome entitled "Clothes: Their Origin and Influence", but is actually a poioumenon.[2] Teufelsdröckh"s Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a sceptical English Reviewer (referred to as Editor) who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is, in part, a parody of Hegel, and of German Idealism more generally. However, Teufelsdröckh is also a literary device with which Carlyle can express difficult truths.
