Mirror of Obedience
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25067-3 (ISBN)
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.
Simone Weil was a philosopher, a mystic, and an activist. Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and is a member of PEriTiA, Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin, Ireland. With Philip Wilson, she translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019). Philip Wilson teaches philosophy of religion, philosophy of literature and translation studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. With Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, he translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Translators’ Biographies
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Simone Weil as Poet
Chapter 2: Simone Weil and Literature
List of Abbreviations
Further Reading
Poems
À une jeune fille riche / To a Rich Girl
Vers lus au Goûter de la Saint Charlemagne / Verses Read at the Feast of
Saint Charlemagne
Éclair / Lightning
Promethée / Prometheus
À un jour / To a Day
La mer / The Sea
Nécessité / Necessity
Les astres / The Stars
La porte / The Gate
Four Excerpts from Venice Saved
Jaffier 1-3
Violetta
Selected Prose
Conte: Les Lutins du feu / Tale: The Fairies of the Fire
Le conte des six cygnes dans Grimm / The Tale of the Six Swans in Grimm
On the Translation
Translators’ Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-25067-8 / 1350250678 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-25067-3 / 9781350250673 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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