O Banquete

Blending philosophy with everyday matter, the novel goes back to the founding myths by which people have explained themselves and turns them over to ponder our dream of living forever. A radio bulletin reports on Plato's cave; the book wonders what would have followed had humanity tasted the fruit of Eden's second tree; birds hold a grand assembly to reconsider the laws of nature as they apply to people, and to weigh whether the species should die out. Woven through it is a Faust who will not keep a bargain with the Devil, and souls traded day after day, as the book asks how little it takes to wreck a life or become someone else.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

325 pages in the original

First published

2012 by Caminho

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789722125789 (original)