person
the gravedigger
also: der Mann mit dem Spaten, Totengräber
The man with the spade at the village churchyard, to whom the narrator tells the tale of death; he digs 'like an animal' against the incomprehensibility of death and will pass the story on to the watching children.
Reading notes
- Stories of God §103 gravedigger
The man with the spade at the churchyard; the listener of this frame, who buries the dead as 'people bury God up there.'