The Almost Lost Art of Doing Nothing by Dany Laferrière
The Almost Lost Art of Doing Nothing by Dany Laferrière
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If the narrator of this book cultivates the art of doing nothing, his ideas, for their part, intend to lead their own life and are particularly active. From the cafes, bookstores or cemeteries of Montreal, Port-au-Prince, Paris and Miami, they tackle all subjects: the body, the five senses, the feeling of love, sex, the nap, war, writers: Bulgakov, Salinger, Laclos, Rulfo. The art of remaining still, of capturing the moment, of talking to a stranger or getting lost, becomes above all an art of living. By staging his ideas, Dany Laferrière invites us to follow him in his wanderings and to look at the world around us as he does, that is to say with the naivety of a child and the cunning of a writer. Stories that are at once sensitive, funny and intelligent. "I am taught that today's hectic life cannot tolerate this dry waste of time that is the nap, which is a mistake because this break in the course of the day makes us more sensitive to others - and less obsessed with ourselves. The nap is a courtesy that we do to our bodies exhausted by the brutal pace of the city." "A walk through the head of a man, The Almost Lost Art of Doing Nothing restores the nobility of slowness and reflection, which is a protection against ambient unanimity, market logic and dictates, in a world of formatted ideas and instantaneous opinion." Josée Lapointe, La Presse
