On the Line: Notes from a Factory Ponthus Joseph
On the Line: Notes from a Factory Ponthus Joseph A celebrated French bestseller, this novel in verse that captures the mundane and the beautiful, the blood and sweat, of working on the factory floor…
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On the Line: Notes from a Factory Ponthus Joseph
A celebrated French bestseller, this novel in verse that captures the mundane and the beautiful, the blood and sweat, of working on the factory floor in the processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany.Unable 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. But he finds solace in a life previously lived.Shelling prawns, he dreams of Alexandre Dumas. 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.
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 Pushing cattle carcasses, he recalls Apollinaire.