"I never want to drink, when I was in the hospital. Funny, no? But after I toil like a slave all week, I have to force hangover. Have you ever noticed that cooks drink like sponges? And even the bakers? E ' work. Have a drink for strength. "
Martin Eden, Jack London
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| ironers - Edgar Degas (1884) |
Although this is the association that is made more immediate, is not only Degas ballerinas. In addition to portraits of a typical bourgeois Paris there has other, perhaps more uncomfortable. Snapshots of a reality that they preferred to conceal where the myth of the "belle époque" seemed to be late in coming. And where a bottle of alcohol could assume a different meaning: not nice tool in the hands of a Bohème, but only escape from a grueling work.
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