Title : On the line - Factory sheets - Joseph Ponthus - book

Summary :

RTL Lire Grand Prix 2019 - Eugène Dabit Prize 2019

On the Line is Joseph Ponthus's first novel. It's the story of a temporary worker who works in Breton fish canneries and slaughterhouses. Day after day, he inventories with infinite precision the gestures of line work, the noise, the fatigue, the dreams confiscated in the repetition of exhausting rituals, the bodily suffering. What saves him is that he has had another life. He knows the Latin authors, he has vibrated with Dumas, he knows the poems of Apollinaire and the songs of Trenet. It is his temporary victory against everything that hurts, everything that alienates. And, going to the next line, we will find in the blanks of the text the beloved woman, Sunday happiness, the dog Pok Pok, the smell of the sea. Through the magic of a writing style that is by turns distant, angry, funny, fraternal, working life becomes an odyssey where Ulysses fights carcasses of oxen and tons of whelks like so many cyclops.

• EAN: 9782710389668
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