Despite its false air of a collective manifesto and its facetious tone, We have always loved Sundays is to be taken seriously: it is a full-on attack on what Lydie Salvayre (Don’t cryPrix Goncourt 2014) calls “forced work” and “exaggerated”. Because it is work, according to her, “that makes us sad, that makes us ugly and that makes us mean”. A demonstration that draws in particular on Bertrand Russell and Paul Lafargue. Since always, in her eyes of incurable nostalgia for the hours of childhood that stretched out, work had to be done for the good of each and all, and not “to fill the coffers of a few profiteers who farted in silk”. From this angle, “laziness is political” and constitutes, according to the French writer, one of the highest pleasures of the soul. It is even the condition and the prelude to thought. A powerful antidote, above all, to oppose to the “Gentlemen-apologists-of-the-work-of-others”.
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