The annual banquet of the gravediggers guild
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Brimming with Mathias Enard’s characteristic wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel set in western France, where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess.
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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 oktober 2023
Aantal pagina's: 496
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Mathias ÉNard
Hoofduitgeverij: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Eerste Vertaler: Frank Wynne
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 127 mm
Product hoogte: 33 mm
Product lengte: 195 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 33 mm
Verpakking lengte: 218 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 330 g
EAN: 9781804270592