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Mirror of Obedience - The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil (Hardcover)
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Mirror of Obedience - The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil (Hardcover)
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Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers
of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound
work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of Obedience
collects together Weil's poetry and autobiographical writings
translated into English for the first time. It offers a rare
glimpse into a more personal and introspective Weil than we usually
encounter. She was writing and re-working her poems until the end
of her life and in a letter from London to her parents, dated 22
January 1943, she expressed the wish for her verses to appear
together in print in chronological order, a wish which this volume
honours. Weil was a thinker who wrote with discipline and spareness
and cherished the poetic form for its power to compress language
and distill meaning. In these poems and literary writings, we see
her own efforts to craft poems as essential expressions of thought,
bringing into view another aspect of Weil’s quest for beauty and
truth.
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