On the Way to Death

<p><em>On the Way to Death</em> completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy death and God. It addresses itself to the question of death as the basic incongruity of life. Here is opened to human view the final divine comedy: a total reversal of the traditional roles assigned to God and humankind a comical denouncement of the terror of death. <em>On the Way to Death</em> follows <em>Sitting in the Earth and Laughing</em> and <em>How to Tell God From the Devil</em> to complete Roy Eckardt's trilogy on comedy the devil and God.</p>