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Mirror of Obedience

The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil

Philip Wilson editor Silvia Caprioglio Panizza editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:10th Aug '23

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The first English translation of the poetry and literary works of Simone Weil, one of the most important female thinkers of the 20th century.

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.

This book is an excellent contribution to the poetry and translation of Simone Weil. The authors introduce us to her as a poet or writer, but also as a philosopher and translator. * French Studies *

ISBN: 9781350250680

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200 pages