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Der Totengräber by Johann Lippet

Out of a 187 Houses village, 8 people remain and 10 houses from which 4 are empty. Just like that as if dark forces where involved 7 people die and the only remaining survivor is Johann Wiener

As a gravedigger and self-appointed administrator of his village, Johann Wiener designs a plan for the beautification of the cemetery and can emotionally move the residents that moved to foreign countries to generous financial support his plan. Thus developed the village W. into a flourishing operation in a country dominated by poverty and lack ... Johann Lippet narrative excels in all detail, with the setting of the rural culture of the Banat is portrayed, especially by a tendency for the grotesque, the absurd, that appears behind the details.


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