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| #287893 in Books | New York Review Books | 2005-03-10 | 2005-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.34 x5.03l,.34 | File type: PDF | 121 pages | ||26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.| The Hedgehog and the Fox|By Jay Dickson|Mary McCarthy translated both of these great essays on the ILIAD written during the Occupation by two of France's leading intellectuals with the intention of publishing them both together, but entanglements with the estate of Simone Weil made this impossible until now. The great Greek literary works about warfare and civilization were||"War and the Iliad joins together for the first time in a single volume Simone Weil’s ferocious lament ('The Iliad or the Poem of Force'), with her less well known contemporary Rachel Bespaloff’s antiphonal meditation on conflict, pacifism a
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.
Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, t...
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