The marriage of plot and prosody makes it a masterpiece — a greater triumph even than Mario Vargas Llosa's marvelously brilliant "Feast of the Goat," which is likewise a Caribbean dictator novel, and likewise invokes Rubén Darío.
For the brilliant Feast of the Pheasant, held in 1454 by Philip the Good of Burgundy and intended to initiate a Crusade to recapture Jerusalem, Dufay composed a lamentation for the church in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
Expect pillow fights, a bake-off, sports day, bubble hours, midnight feasts, a brilliant children's literature programme and a brand new Tales of Animalia area run by the Fabularium.
Lawrence Norfolk's John Saturnall's Feast (Bloomsbury) is a brilliant, erudite tale of cookery and witchcraft in 1681.
One in particular stands out: a sombre Sarah Burton, who completed the collection after he died, ruffles the feathers on one of the designs that she finished for her mentor.All three books are visual feasts that document a brilliant mind at work and a bewitching chapter of fashion history.
Hunts, feasts, battles, storms, and landscapes were described with a brilliant concretion of detail rarely paralleled since, while the abler poets also contrived subtle modulations of the staple verse-paragraph to accommodate dialogue, discourse, and argument.
After feasting we ambled along the canal, admiring the views of sea, hills and sailing boats against a brilliant blue sky.
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