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Bok_Tukalo

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8. "Tender is the Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jun 14, 2026, 12:53 PM

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It is a dystopian Argentine novella about the industrialization of cannibalism. People are cattle for other people.

Seems like a metaphor for the class system of the world. Even to the point that while consuming people with two names is frowned upon, if you act up too much, you will be sent to the slaughterhouse.

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