Tender is the Flesh Review
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An accurate depiction of the world where cannibalism is the norm.
Where people get to be as depraved as they wish.
Where there is no end to the suffering even for the cannibals themselves.
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The perfect pet…
As a young woman, I find that older men easily develop obsessions with girls like me.
Youthful. Inexperienced. Silent.
Poor Jasmine…
Beautiful. Youthful. Bountiful. Fertile.
The perfect woman in the eyes of Marcos, especially those cut vocal cords.
Agustina Bazterrica took a fictional situation and turned it into a mirror for the world.
At the drop of a hat, I know there are people who would rape anything and everything, experiment on and torture their fellow mankind, and hunt their brothers for sport.
She seems to have touched on every depravity humans have all within one novella.
Amazing.
This book continuously made me uncomfortable, and as I got further into it, I realized it’s because this book is a caricature of real life. She has exaggerated the circumstances, a virus causing cannibalism, but…the people’s reactions are true to real life.
This book lifts that very thin veil between human and animal.
Tender is the Flesh is a book of desire.
There is part of the population that would vomit during a slitting, and there is part of the population (I hope a very small portion) that would cum.
Bazterrica peels open the can of worms that is full of humanity’s darker desires.
I was under the impression that this book would only explore the craving of human flesh, but as cannibalism generally is, it was also accompanied by all other forms of soulless consumption and control.
I study cannibalism, my focus on the cultural and psychological effects. I used to have more of an interest in criminal cannibalism, but it all ends the same. It's someone who is mentally ill taking their crimes to the next level.
Bazterrica's depiction is what I would call “capitalist cannibalism.” It's truly not survival cannibalism when an entire industry is built on human consumption. The economy is based on cannibalism.
Bazterrica genuinely took us on a journey through the entire system of capitalist cannibalism, from breeding to slaughtering to tanning to consuming to testing to sport to “enjoying.”
And I hate how accurate she is...
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