The Iliad or The Poem of Force by Simone Weil

The Iliad or The Poem of Force

Simone Weil with Mary McCarthy (Translator)

39 pages first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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The Iliad, or: The Poem of Force was written in the summer and fall of 1940, after the fall of France. It may thus be read as an indirect commentary on that tragic event, which signalized the triumph of the most extreme modern expression of force....

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