Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350250673)

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.

Author: Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
ISBN-10: 1350250678
ISBN-13: 9781350250673
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2023
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d