A young explorer sets off from noisy Paris to the distant French hinterland. He dreams of studying in detail the rural life and customs of the locals. The local mayor becomes his guide along the paths of the Marshes.
Behind the mask of ordinariness, the hero will discover funny and terrible secrets. After all, even his leader is also the chief undertaker by vocation and part-time, the young boar is the receptacle of the soul of the local abbot, and the village fool is a true seer... And all of them are subject to the eternal transformation of fates, the inexorable Wheel, the cycle of life and death. Only once a year does it stop, and Death takes a break. Then the members of the Burial Brotherhood gather for their annual feast to discuss pressing issues and glorify Life - filling their stomachs with food, drinking liters of wine and deafening with table speeches! They definitely know everything about the world and man.
Refined, rich in cultural and historical allusions, at times Homerically funny, Rabelaisianly rich, at times psychologically piercing, the text of Mathias Enard is a real literary feast.
Author:
Mathias Enar
Translation: Belyak Alla
Year of issue: 2022
Publisher: Polyandria No Age
Pages: 543
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions:
207x136x34 mm
ISBN: 978-5-60471-0623