Simone Weil : thinking poetically / Joan Dargan. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dargan, Joan.

Series:

SUNY series, Simone Weil studies

SUNY series, Simone Weil studies Simone Weil

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.

Weil, Simone.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 148 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Simone Weil created a memorable oeuvre remarkable for its lucid, striking, and seemingly transparent prose. 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 Baudelaire, and acknowledges its kinship to the works of poets and writers of her generation, notably the poets Rene Char and Marina Tsvetaeva. 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."--Jacket.

Contents:

"La Personne et le sacre"

"The Terrible Prayer"

"Prologue"

Notebooks

Poetry and Poetics

The Proposal for Front-Line Nurses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-145) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-0050-0

0-585-35493-6