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(en) France, UCL AL #363 - Culture - Reading: Martin Thibault, Les Têtes hautes (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:56:44 +0300
This book tells the story of a railway maintenance workshop, a group of
workers who toil there, and who, every Friday the 13th, play the lottery
together. The narrator has been working there for (too) long and harbors
few illusions: "Having built nothing other than the struggle at work,
having let other dreams slip away for a just cause." ---- The Monday
morning announcement, on returning to work, that this time the lottery
ticket - perhaps more unifying than union struggle or even a strike -
has won, will shake up in one way or another a routine built on
precariousness, solidarity, and friendship.
Can one walk away from the factory without betraying colleagues, a union
mandate, one's social class? The parallels with Joseph Ponthus's À la
ligne are obvious, though here the tone is more union-centered. Martin
Thibault, for whom this is a first novel, is also co-author with Sophie
Béroud of the excellent book En luttes! (Raisons d'agir, 2021) about the
Solidaires union confederation. One question remains: did his field
research feed into this text, at once restrained and moving?
Gile (supporter from Brest)
Martin Thibault, Les Têtes hautes, Do, 2025, 176 pages, 17 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Martin-Thibault-Les-Tetes-hautes
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