Tenderloin by Joy Sorman - APRIL 2024 LTER
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“The simplest way to identify with another being is still to eat it.” — Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Joy Sorman’s Tenderloin is a macabre piece of literature depicting a young butcher who’s cravings for meat cloud his every waking thought. Readers be warned: as you can imagine, there are countless detailed descriptions of chain massacres in slaughterhouses and killing and carving domesticated animals. However, Sorman denounces this and advocates for camaraderie with animals, with some sprinkling of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
My score: 3.5/5
Pim is an interesting protagonist. He is somewhat of a crybaby, but learns to be a butcher with obsessive precision. When Pim is not working in cold rooms or watching cows graze fields, he is taking his obsessions home—mapping out the flanks, ribs, and haunches of women who come home with him. To be a butcher, to Pim, is to be one of madness and ecstasy. Moving from character, I noticed some interweaving of concepts, such as masculinity, ethnicity, hunger, and the ethics of eating meat.
“Pim is off-center, a man who doesn’t play the leading role in his own play, who occupies the back seat in this existence that’s his all the same. Meat has the starring role.” — page 128
Overall, I found this novel to be above average and I recommend it for anyone who enjoyed reading Tender Is The Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Thank you to LibraryThing for the advanced copy!
* Spoiler Free
Joy Sorman’s Tenderloin is a macabre piece of literature depicting a young butcher who’s cravings for meat cloud his every waking thought. Readers be warned: as you can imagine, there are countless detailed descriptions of chain massacres in slaughterhouses and killing and carving domesticated animals. However, Sorman denounces this and advocates for camaraderie with animals, with some sprinkling of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
My score: 3.5/5
Pim is an interesting protagonist. He is somewhat of a crybaby, but learns to be a butcher with obsessive precision. When Pim is not working in cold rooms or watching cows graze fields, he is taking his obsessions home—mapping out the flanks, ribs, and haunches of women who come home with him. To be a butcher, to Pim, is to be one of madness and ecstasy. Moving from character, I noticed some interweaving of concepts, such as masculinity, ethnicity, hunger, and the ethics of eating meat.
“Pim is off-center, a man who doesn’t play the leading role in his own play, who occupies the back seat in this existence that’s his all the same. Meat has the starring role.” — page 128
Overall, I found this novel to be above average and I recommend it for anyone who enjoyed reading Tender Is The Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Thank you to LibraryThing for the advanced copy!
