France tips continuously closer to revolution as the posse move towards Paris. Pierette seduces Tarare at a noble’s manor destroyed by looters and radicals, but rejects him after he ejaculates prematurely to thoughts of Antoine. Antoine gets drunk at a festival in [[Bercy]] and attempts to rob a carriage with a flintlock. One of their companions is killed by crossfire with the driver and the shots summon a local militia. Tarare runs away after they force him to swallow their meagre loot for safekeeping, including a golden fork.
France tips continuously closer to revolution as the posse move towards Paris. Pierette seduces Tarare at a noble’s manor destroyed by looters and radicals, but rejects him after he ejaculates prematurely to thoughts of Antoine. Antoine gets drunk at a festival in [[Bercy]] and attempts to rob a carriage with a flintlock. One of their companions is killed by crossfire with the driver and the shots summon a local militia. Tarare runs away after they force him to swallow their meagre loot for safekeeping, including a golden fork.
Tarare scrapes out a living in Paris throughout the Revolution, eventually signing to fight in the [[War of the First Coalition]] out of desperation for more food. He is sent to a military hospital after resorting to petty theft and sexual favors to access his comrades’ rations. His care is divided between the kind and spiritual Citizen-Doctor Depuis, who attempts to manage Tarare with a conventional diet of boiled eggs and other basic but plentiful meals, and the atheistic Dr. Courville, who goads Tarare into eating live animals to satisfy his own sadistic curiosity. Courville eventually devises
Tarare scrapes out a living in Paris throughout the Revolution, eventually signing to fight in the [[War of the First Coalition]] out of desperation for more food. He is sent to a military hospital after resorting to petty theft and sexual favors to access his comrades’ rations. His care is divided between the kind and spiritual Citizen-Doctor Depuis, who attempts to manage Tarare with a conventional diet of boiled eggs and other basic but plentiful meals, and the atheistic Dr. Courville, who goads Tarare into eating live animals to satisfy his own sadistic curiosity. Courville eventually devises
Tarare is sent into Prussian-controlled [[Alsace-Loraine]] with instructions to reach a German prisoner of war. He successfully disguises himself as a German, but outs himself as a Catholic by crossing himself before a meal hosted by a Protestant family.
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The Glutton is a 2022 novel by American author A. K. Blakemore, adapting the story of French eater and showman Tarrare. The book follows a fictionalized protagonist named Tarare throughout the Ancien Regime and French Revolution.
Plot
A disheveled Tarare is admitted to a Versaille hospital in 1798. He is diagnosed with severe malnutrition and tuberculosis, but refuses to eat and instead claims his condition is the result of a golden fork he ate and then failed to pass. A young sister named Perpetué is given the night watch over his room, where he is chained to the bed on suspicion of killing and eating a child at another hospital years earlier. He befriends her, and offers to retell his life story.
Tarare is born in 1772 to a pair of teenaged peasants near Lyon. His father is mortally wounded in a drunken brawl as the mother is giving birth and, when asked for a name for the child, he only responds with with “Tarare” before expiring. Tarare grows up with a tall, lanky build and a normal appetite. His mother takes up prostitution and midwifery before falling in love with a smuggler name Nollet, who stores black market table salt under their floorboards. Tarare falls in love with a boy named Hervé, only for Hervé to bluff Tarare into revealing when Nollet is away. Hervé betrays them to a rival gang, who rob Tarare and his mother of their salt and gold. Nollet returns and takes Tarare into the woods, where he beats him with the blunt end of a woodaxe and leaves him to die. Tarare survives, eventually waking up in a field far away with a deep, preternatural hunger.
Tarare is rescued by a passing showman and pimp named Lozeau. Lozeau and his posse stay as entertainers at a wedding, where the locals discuss growing political repression and make calls for a revolution. Tarare is overwhelmed by hunger and attacks the storeroom, eating enough for five men in a single hour. They are chased out in the morning, however Tarare’s antics earn the affections of the young harlot Pierette and Lozeau’s beautiful brother Antoine. Tarare’s hunger worsens as he travels, gorging himself on scraps. Lozeau is inspired by Tarare eating a wine cork, eventually debuting him as “The Bottomless Man” in Saint-Flour. Tarare is an instant hit after eating a dead rat thrown by Antoine as an audience plant, beginning a tour of his eating act on the gang’s route to Paris. Tarare notices his metabolism begin to shift in response to his diet, but is otherwise content with his existence.
France tips continuously closer to revolution as the posse move towards Paris. Pierette seduces Tarare at a noble’s manor destroyed by looters and radicals, but rejects him after he ejaculates prematurely to thoughts of Antoine. Antoine gets drunk at a festival in Bercy and attempts to rob a carriage with a flintlock. One of their companions is killed by crossfire with the driver and the shots summon a local militia. Tarare runs away after they force him to swallow their meagre loot for safekeeping, including a golden fork.
Tarare scrapes out a living in Paris throughout the Revolution, eventually signing to fight in the War of the First Coalition out of desperation for more food. He is sent to a military hospital after resorting to petty theft and sexual favors to access his comrades’ rations. His care is divided between the kind and spiritual Citizen-Doctor Depuis, who attempts to manage Tarare with a conventional diet of boiled eggs and other basic but plentiful meals, and the atheistic Dr. Courville, who goads Tarare into eating live animals to satisfy his own sadistic curiosity. Courville eventually devises a military application for Tarare’s abilities, presenting him to the high command of the Republic with the claim that he can swallow a container with a message and later pass it behind enemy lines to deliver to a contact.
Tarare is sent into Prussian-controlled Alsace-Loraine with instructions to reach a German prisoner of war. He successfully disguises himself as a German, but outs himself as a Catholic by crossing himself before a meal hosted by a Protestant family.
