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Lizzy Davies: ‘The Night Cleaner’, 3 November 2011

The Night Cleaner 
by Florence Aubenas, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 184 pp., £14.99, 0 7456 5199 2
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... travel to the real thing, it is still serving workers at the beginning of the 21st. ‘Poor Virgin Mary,’ the custodian said. ‘If only you knew what people ask her for.’ Like the undercover writers, almost all Aubenas’s fellow workers were women; most CDDs in France are taken by women, many of them working part-time. Politics rarely came up. When ...

Self-Illuminated

Gilberto Perez: Godard’s Method, 1 April 2004

Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 
by Colin MacCabe.
Bloomsbury, 432 pp., £25, November 2003, 0 7475 6318 7
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... who took it on as a commercial assignment while devoting more serious attention to his Virgin Mary in modern dress – or undress, since she is naked much of the time in Je vous salue, Marie (the film has a spiritual, reverential dimension, but one can see why there was Catholic discontent). Détective is Bande à part two decades later. It is also a ...

I came with a sword

Toril Moi: Simone Weil’s Way, 1 July 2021

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas 
by Robert Zaretsky.
Chicago, 181 pp., £16, February 2021, 978 0 226 54933 0
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... she found work at Carnaud, making gas masks and oilcans; she was laid off after a few weeks. Then Renault hired her. At the end of August, she was fired. The experience of dangerous, physically exhausting and soul-destroying factory work forms the background to La Condition ouvrière, a collection of texts – journal entries, letters, brief essays ...

Diary

Alan Bennett: What I did in 1995, 4 January 1996

... face, he sees the little red spot she has on her forehead. Gently he scratches it – and wins a Renault 5. All these come from musicians, George the only one of my friends who still hears jokes or moves in circles that tell them, or make them up. 27 June. Most adverse comments on John Redwood’s appearance remark on his resemblance to Mr Spock or someone ...

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett, 8 March 2007

... tended to prefer gay authors, hence her acquaintance with Genet. Some she liked – the novels of Mary Renault, for instance, fascinated her – but others of a deviant persuasion she was less keen on; Denton Welch, for instance (a favourite of Norman’s), whom she felt was rather unhealthy; Isherwood (no time for all the meditation). As a reader she ...

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