Chapter «L’ozio è fatale soltanto ai mediocri». Tempo, lavoro, libertà in Albert Camus

Overview & Synopsis

The characters present in Albert Camus novels are lazy, indolent, do not like to work, because they live in contact with nature, with the sea, with the sun, with the heat and because they suffer from the constraints of a society that is industrializing. Camus, through his characters, criticizes the ideology of work, of capitalist and consumer society. However, his criticisms do not save Marxism either, because, as in capitalism, the economic logic of labor and production remains. The real life would be that of the artist: for him the work does not follow the rhythm of machines and progress but follows the rhythm of nature and body.