ABSTRACT
Keetenheuve saw in his mind’s eye the miner arriving home at the new estate that the committee had discussed, that they had calculated, that they had legislated. … The miner entered the minimum number of square meters that the experts had allotted to him. … They were overcome by tedium, a silent tedium that sometimes manifested itself in violence, in suicide, in seemingly inexplicable family conflict, but it was simply the incessant noise of the estate, the proximity to so many others, the disgust at the odors of the kitchens and the toilets.
