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À la ligne est le premier roman de Joseph Ponthus. C’est l’histoire d’un ouvrier intérimaire qui embauche dans les conserveries de poissons et les abattoirs bretons. Jour après jour, il inventorie avec une infinie précision les gestes du travail à la ligne, le bruit, la fatigue, les rêves confisqués dans la répétition de rituels épuisants, la souffrance du corps. Ce qui le sauve, c’est qu’il a eu une autre vie. Il connaît les auteurs latins, il a vibré avec Dumas, il sait les poèmes d’Apollinaire et les chansons de Trenet. C’est sa victoire provisoire contre tout ce qui fait mal, tout ce qui aliène. Et, en allant à la ligne, on trouvera dans les blancs du texte la femme aimée, le bonheur dominical, le chien Pok Pok, l’odeur de la mer.
Par la magie d’une écriture tour à tour distanciée, coléreuse, drôle, fraternelle, la vie ouvrière devient une odyssée où Ulysse combat des carcasses de bœufs et des tonnes de bulots comme autant de cyclopes.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A multi-award-winning French bestseller that brings poetry to the factory floorFactory you shall never have my soulI am hereAnd I count for so much more than youAnd I count so much more because of youThanks to youUnable 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781760642334
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A multi-award-winning French bestseller that brings poetry to the factory floorFactory you shall never have my soulI am hereAnd I count for so much more than youAnd I count so much more because of youThanks to youUnable 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781760642334
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