“To live for a working”, so says Larbaud. Common sense would rather say “to work for a living”. Graeco-Latin and biblical traditions see in work the curse of God. Later, Voltaire and Marx rehabilitate work. The hard “labor” gives way to “opus” that Horace sang. Twenty centuries later, Paul Valéry is afraid of the fading of the elite able to appreciate such a piece of work.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques