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Simone Weil

Name: Simone Weil
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04700571
Price: 101.26 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Joan Dargan
ISBN: 9780791442234

Thinking Poetically

Joan Dargan

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04700571

Publishers State University of New York Press, July 1999

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Libristo code: 04700571

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Simone Weil created a memorable ceuvre remarkable for its lucid, striking, and seemingly transparent prose. Aphoristic and impersonal in tone, it is the instrument of a master stylist. The first to recognize Weil's achievement as a writer, this book situates her work within the French literary tradition, showing its affinities with Pascal and Budelaire, and acknowledges its kinship to the works of poets and writers of her generation, notably the poets Rene Char and Marina Tsvetaeva. The parallel between Weil's concept of decreation and the impersonality of the speaker in-her prose is shown ultimately to be to her will to surpass the boundaries of the written page in her drive to self-immolation. Close reading of passages from her notebooks, several short texts, and a proposal for front-line nurses addressed to the Free French illustrates the forces and influences at work in her writing.