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On the Line - Notes from a Factory (Paperback)
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On the Line - Notes from a Factory (Paperback)
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List price R291
Loot Price R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
You Save R25 (9%)
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Factory you shall never have my soul I am here And I count for so
much more than you And I count so much more because of you Thanks
to you Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists
with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish
processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he
records with infinite precision the nature of work on the
production line: the noise, the weariness, the dreams stolen by the
repetitive nature of exhausting rituals and physical suffering. But
he finds solace in a life previously lived. Shelling prawns, he
dreams of Alexandre Dumas. Pushing cattle carcasses, he recalls
Apollinaire. And, in the grace of the blank spaces created by his
insistent return to a new line of text - mirroring his continued
return to the production line - we discover the woman he loves, the
happiness of a Sunday, Pok Pok the dog, the smell of the sea. In
this celebrated French bestseller, translated by Stephanie Smee,
Ponthus captures the mundane, the beautiful and the strange,
writing with an elegance and humour that sit in poignant contrast
with the blood and sweat of the factory floor. On the Line is a
poet's ode to manual labour, and to the human spirit that makes it
bearable.
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