Informit article: Loving the unlovable

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Arena Magazine no. 138

Justin Clemens

Oct 2015

Abstract:

Simone Weil today.

If there was one thing Simone Weil couldn’t bear, it was Simone Weil. So she did every – thing she could not to be – to not be. In the brief course of her existence – Weil was dead by the age of thirty-four – she submitted to at least three different means to this paradoxical end, each roughly corresponding to a different phase of her life.

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