The Right to Be Lazy - Paul Lafargue Ronald Johnson A starkly beautiful

A starkly beautiful

Megahex by Simon Hanselmann/ ISBN 9781606997437 / Nice 200-page hardcover from Fantagraphics

Dostoevsky

paving the way for the zine explosion that was to come years later in rock

(I only managed to buy myself a copy back then

The Right to Be Lazy - Paul Lafargue Ronald Johnson A starkly beautifulThe Right to Be Lazy and Other Writings by Paul Lafargue, translated by Alex Andriesse, intro by Lucy Sante ISBN 9781681376820 paperback from New York Review of Books Classics, published 20202 *** The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful. Michael Autrey, Booklist Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and