Lucasta Miller

The troublesome idealism of Simone Weil

Hailed as ‘an uncompromising witness to the modern travails of the spirit’ , Weil also exasperated those closest to her with her ambitions for heroic self-denial

Simone Weil: her ambitions for heroic self-denial became increasingly unrealistic

  • Simone Weil: A Life in Letters

    Robert Chenavier, translated by Nicholas Elliott

    Harvard, pp. 384, £31

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