Taking in each other's laundry
On the mythological and biological necessity of work: "You can only survive if you work, since so much is working against you."
Labor
Au Travail
One of the first dramatic conflicts to propel The Map And The Territory, Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, is a quintessentially French scene of heroism and vexation: the protagonist’s water-heater wheezes, hisses, sputters, peters out and dies. It’s Christmas Eve (when else for a water-heater to die but on extended week-end holi
Michel Serres: "L'age d'or, l'age de fer"
Serres retraces the history of what he calls le Dure and le Doux (the "hard&q