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A Life In Letters

Yazan: Simone Weil, Marie-Noelle Chenavier- Jullien, Annette Devaux, Olivier Rey, Robert Chenavier - Editor — Editor, Andre A. Devaux - Editor — Editor, Nicholas Elliott - Translator — Translator
Seslendiren: Elisabeth Lagelee
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 Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays.



The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences. The letters abound with vivid illustrations of a life marked by wisdom as much as seeking. The daughter of a bourgeois Parisian Jewish family, Weil was a troublemaking idealist who preferred the company of miners and Russian exiles to that of her peers. An extraordinary scholar of history and politics, she ultimately found a home in Christian mysticism.



A Life in Letters depicts Simone Weil's thought taking shape amid political turmoil, as she describes her participation in the Spanish struggle against fascism and in the transatlantic resistance to the Nazis. An introduction and notes by Robert Chenavier contextualize the letters historically and intellectually, relating Weil's letters to her general body of writing.
 European Letters & Correspondence Literary History & Criticism Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Military Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Politics & Government World Literature
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Simone Weil’s words and her genius speak for themselves but this is a beautifully edited and read edition thank you

The introduction alone is brilliant and beautifully read

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