El banquet anual de la Confraria d'Enterramorts

The tragicomic diary of an anthropology student who settles in a French village is intertwined with an unusual and fascinating journey through the history of France from the invasion of the Franks to the twentieth century. Episodes of love and tragedy, of present and past, wrap up an exceptional event: while deaths everywhere continue to occur, in this village Death gives a three-day truce to the living and offers a surprising break from eating, drinking and celebration to their most faithful servants. The pantagruelic annual banquet of the Brotherhood of Undertakers. Mathias Enard explodes the seams of the novel in this multifaceted work, of overflowing creative force, which on horseback of the sumptuous prose that is characteristic of him, this time also full of play and humor, addresses contemporary worries and the more turbulent past, it pays homage to a territory and a way of life and vindicates the gaze from the periphery for the great universal themes.