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The article presents an analysis of one of the Georg Heym’s major short stories. The main problem shown in this article is the notion of corporality and the way body is perceived in literature. The expressionist vision of the disintegration of a human body presented by Heym – detailed descriptions of performing an autopsy and an accompanying natural process of body degradation – are contrasted with full life which is personified by physicians leaning over a body. Additionally, the scene dynamics is strengthened by the presence of the colour which in Heym’s work, as in many expressionist works, constitutes an equivalent of the movement. The notion of corporality and the problem of passing also constitute one of the topics of Gottfried Benn’s work. A body, which is an object of an autopsy, becomes, on the one hand, a model – it is an analytical material, it serves the science, yet on the other hand it loses its continuity being subjected to deformation – and as in Bacon’s paintings – it gradually turns into a meat tissue.