De encyclopedieën van de val
Marc Kregting
het balanceer, 2022
€27,50
No one escapes gravity. On earth, laws rule that push us down, until the grave follows. Desires end at least as unhappy. Hunger for knowledge leads in the Bible to the Fall and Icarus’ urge to fly finds completion on the seabed.
Is it ever good? One falls for the fatherland, the other for love, a third for big money. Equally effectively, gravity teaches about history. The twentieth century would have ended early with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the twenty-first century would have started with collapsed brother towers in New York.
Do we feel relief or consternation when nothing or no one escapes? There are sportsmen, drunks, actors, beauties, billionaires, dreamers, carpenters and those who don’t. Marc Kregting gives space to all their stories. Often they are comical, at times dramatic. The pain of an abyss is different from that of a banana peel.IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789079202850
