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Drawing on New Materialism this paper explores the materiality of bodies in Terézia Moras Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent (2009) and the question of agency. As New Materialists emphasize, the construction of material bodies is related to the interaction between the material and discursive. This paper suggests that the body functions as an experimental space in the Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent where the extremes of reality and virtuality, acceleration and stagnation within modern capitalism, as well as between the inner and real world, come into play. Taking into account the new developments in the global market and technology, the novel shows how material and discursive interactions contribute to the social and communicative constraints faced by individuals in a neoliberal society.