Desde la línea

This is the diary of a worker, of a temporary worker, first in the fish canneries, later in the Breton slaughterhouses. Two years meticulously writing down what happens on the production line: the colleagues and the machines, the deafening noise, the eternal repetition of the factory rituals, the shift changes... But also the Latin authors, and Dumas and Rabelais and Perec , and the poems of Apollinaire and the songs of Trenet, those daily parapets, those provisional victories in the face of what exhausts man and alienates him. And after all, and in spite of everything, an invincible happiness to be and to be in the world, a non-negotiable happiness that takes on the name of his wife, the shape of his dog, the smell of the sea, the laxity of a festive Sunday...