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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

Af: Mathias Enard Engelsk Paperback

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

Af: Mathias Enard Engelsk Paperback
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To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around on his moped to interview local residents. Unbeknownst to David, in these nondescript lands, once theatres of wars and revolutions, Death leads the dance. When an existence ends, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. Only once a year do Death and the living observe a temporary truce, during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, libations and language. Brimming with Mathias Enard’s characteristic wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess – and a paradoxically macabre paean to life’s richness.

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To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around on his moped to interview local residents. Unbeknownst to David, in these nondescript lands, once theatres of wars and revolutions, Death leads the dance. When an existence ends, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. Only once a year do Death and the living observe a temporary truce, during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, libations and language. Brimming with Mathias Enard’s characteristic wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess – and a paradoxically macabre paean to life’s richness.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 496
ISBN-13: 9781804270592
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1804270598
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 4 okt 2023
Længde: 33mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Oplagsdato: 4 okt 2023
Forfatter(e): Mathias Enard
Forfatter(e) Mathias Enard

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9781804270592

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 496

Udgave

Længde 33mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 128mm

Udg. Dato 4 okt 2023

Oplagsdato 4 okt 2023

Forlag Fitzcarraldo Editions

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