[...] Monday Man (1966) shows the torso of an individual with arms crossed over his chest: it gives the impression of being a fragment of a stuffed human body, like one of those big-game trophies that people hang over the mantelpiece. The character’s painful expression is not, however, like the ones in those trophies; it is the expression of the human being who knows of his congenital suffering, as felt in the renewal of his ordinary life on any given Monday: “Today I just suffer” […]