Lydie Salvayre: “Laziness like work are recent creations” With We Have Always Loved Sundays, the writer, winner of the 2014 Goncourt Prize, offers us a delicious eulogy of laziness. “I looked into these questions to realize that laziness, like work, as we considered them today, were recent creations since they were contemporary with the industrial revolution.
Laborious activity was previously a means of meeting needs; in commercial societies, work aims to create needs, in a frantic race for abundance and profit”