Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Cleaning A Pressing Comb

The virtues of imprecation




















" But if our companies have acquired over the last twenty years thick and strong muscles, so their production capacity has increased tremendously, their brains, they have remained small. [...] Now is the time to talk, talk, live, the term risk, relatively happy and relaxed at the workplace .

Could this be the firm Technologia expressed well on the situation of France Telecom, and then a self-proclaimed expert about the famous life balance-professional life?
Not at all, it is an extract of imprecatory , Prix Femina 1974, written by René-Victor Pilhes, former advertising (which does not lack charm back, reading the book).
imprecation, a novel of 350 pages that swallows greedily around the following thesis: the race for profits among large enterprises led to debase human values the rank of door stop.

Full of humor and verve, Pilhes invites us to discover Rosserys & Mitchell, a large international company, which boasts among others to blow the presidents in South America (Chile, for example ... ) or to influence oil prices.
A real big business where introspection and questioning are not the qualities expected of super management.

A world-righteous certitude which tackles a mysterious curse, by distributing pamphlets in the satirical small staff. The

preface of the Chinese edition of this book and the imprecation: "So imprecation tells the story of a strange battle between forces unknown, mysterious, irrational, occult, and what the Western world a better, more modern, more exemplary in this end of the century, and it presents itself: its technology organizations, financers, administrative, economic, which unfold around the world. In the hierarchy of values and examples, the "managers", the leaders of the "war Global Economic replaced the teachers, priests, artists, soldiers, philosophers, the servants of the state. "

short, to discover a book and read it again. And for lovers, a film (super galley to find ...) was fired from the book, directed by Jean Louis Bertucelli, starring Jean Yanne, Michel Piccoli Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marlène Jobert, Jean-Claude Brialy ...

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