80 Pages
by
Routledge
80 Pages
by
Routledge
Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit', Weil grips the moral imagination as few others before or since. She was only thirty four when she died in 1943, yet despite her short life she left behind an incredible body of literature.... Read more
Note, Introduction, Letter to a Priest
Biography
Simone Weil (1909-1943). One of the most original philosophical, religious and political thinkers of the twentieth century.
'The best spiritual writer of this century.'- André Gide
'Here was a woman who tried to piece together a personal moral code from all the best bits of the great faiths, but who rejected any hope of knowledge of God.'- Independent
