The article offers an analysis of the first Danish novel actively appropriating Guy Standing's term 'the precariat' -Nikolai Zeuthen's 'precarious comedy ' Buemundet Guitarfisk (Bowmouth Guitarfish, 2018). However, in contrast to the majority of the Danish literary works hitherto categorised as examples of 'literature of precarity', Buemundet Guitarfisk does not portray an easily identifiable 'underclass'. Instead Zeuthen's novel at first glance seems closer to the resourceful, modern middle

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... ss. Still, the article argues that Buemundet guitarfisk does depict the 'fall' into precarity of its protagonist, Stefan -a poet and former literary scholar. Thus, it highlights the heterogenous nature of the precariat, and if Buemundet guitarfisk is a novel highly engaged in the question of precarity and a novel markedly different from the existing Danish precarious literature, it is because it extrapolates the experience of precariatised existence among the more privileged demographics of Standing's class-in-the-making.