The new book “A History of Fatigue” sets out to examine, “in frankly draining detail,” Anthony Lane writes, the many ways in which humans, often against their will, end up thoroughly pooped.
concerned with religious instruction, but solely as it pertains to remedies for the flagging. Prospective travellers, in the thirteenth century, were advised by Aldebrandin of Siena “to eat only light meats and drink plain water or water infused with onion, vinegar or sour apples to purify their humors.
With the grind of factory labor, in the nineteenth century, Vigarello hits his most thrustful stride—and, incidentally, compels the reader to question the title of his book. Is it actually a history of fatigue? Does it not become, in truth, a history of work, of which fatigue is but one of the by-products? Vigarello cites a three-volume book on industrial economy, from 1829: “Think through all the steps in the work process” and “You will feel much less fatigued but you will earn much more.
Very many of their sleeping hours are consumed in preparing for the field the coming day; and when this is done, old and young, male and female, married and single, drop down side by side, on one common bed,—the cold, damp floor,—each covering himself or herself with their miserable blankets; and here they sleep till they are summoned to the field by the driver’s horn.
Despite this litany of ordeals, all too corporeal, the course that is set by Vigarello in the latter stages of his book is steadily inward, into what he calls a “detailed inventory of psychic malaise.” Reports, filed not from the trenches but from assembly lines and offices, start to speak of fragmentation, helplessness, and an imprisonment that requires no bars. A new fear wells up: a tired mind may be more resistant to healing than the body in which it is housed.
I thought fondly of Bill and Enid as I read Vigarello’s bracing reference to “the rise of individualism, the desire for autonomy and a new concept of the body and also of time itself”—an all-you-can-eat buffet of fresh and tasty ideas. No one will refute, let alone regret, the medical refinements to which Vigarello attests , yet few of us would venture, as he does, to reprimand the past for not doing its homework or keeping up to speed.
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