A hymn to Sunday and beyond ---- We like Lydie Salvayre in Au fil des
pages on Radio libertaire, especially for her book Pas pleurer publishedin 2014 and winner of the Prix Goncourt, a distinction that is justified
for once. The tone of her new book is totally different and reflects the
talent of an author capable of changing register. A somewhat mysterious
title, We have always loved Sundays. For the religious connection?
Family meals? Drucker? Sports on TV? No way, even if everyone is free
and especially in this book. ---- It is a hymn to Sunday, like a poem,
we will find Paul Valéry, like thoughts, we will find Blaise Pascal.
This book is teeming with cultural references, old and recent books,
Since always and it's not over. The reader will find echoes in his or
her own existence. The tone is joyful, mocking towards those who profit
from the work of others, a form of denunciation of social class
relations. Let's be clear, it is a hymn to laziness, to the sweetness of
life. Here is this excerpt: "Happiness above all to discover the
pleasures of reading, backs propped up on soft pillows, perfectly
indifferent to everything else, and caught up, carried away, fascinated
by the story of the sailor Yann Gaos told by Loti in his novel Pêcheur
d'Islande". This makes us think of Jean Giono's taste for reading in bed.
Carpe diem...
Laziness is a subtle, discreet and beneficial art for Lydie Salvayre,
and she quotes Horace: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, seize
the present day without worrying about tomorrow, Odes, I, 11, to
Leuconoe. Yes, since always, since Antiquity. "Laziness is neither more
nor less than a philosophy."
And then, here's something we like: "To be lazy is to disobey."
We understand that this little book is similar in form to the brochures
distributed in the working world at the beginning of the last century
and in substance, you will find echoes of Paul Lafargue and his work Le
droit à la paresse, notably republished by La Découverte with a very
beautiful cover La paresse by Félix Vallotton. This laziness opens our
minds.
Lydie Salvayre proceeds to a scathing critique of the use of the work of
others: "These despoilers of the poor, these kleptocrats, these
plunderers who have a storefront,[...]these
apologists-of-the-work-of-others work with a rare determination to
convince us of the immense benefits of work." The word Work is in all
sauces, even in France Travail, which is not without recalling the
Pétainist slogan: Work, family, homeland. To encourage us to produce
more and more while earning less, consumer society conditions workers.
Lydie Salvayre dismantles the process in nine points.
"Work less to read more"
Continuing her analysis, she mobilizes other authors, in particular
William Morris, author, libertarian socialist thinker, artist who
demands beauty and culture for workers. She denounces the way of life
instilled in business schools for whom work is the alpha and omega of
life by paying employees 11.80 euros for backbreaking work. Let's take
up Paul Valéry's formula: we want an essential time of peace. It is a
love of life. One slogan pleases us: "Work less to read more", says
Lydie Salvayre. This announces wisdom and the author refers to Proust,
Rabelais, Debord, Keynes, Diogenes and tutti quanti.
Listen to her again and here too, I willingly agree: "Do us the honor,
gentlemen, of calling us utopians. This is the customary mockery thrown
by narrow-minded people who are frightened by a trifle to the rare
audacious ones who risk spitting in the soup. We[...]would be, to tell
the truth, extremely flattered to be accused of such insolence."
* Lydie Salvayre
We have always loved Sundays
Ed du Seuil, 2024
https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=7962
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