Francine du Plessex Gray in "On Thin Ice." Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia. Ed. Taylor, Kate. New York: Random House, 2008. 55-68, tells the story of her own battle with anorexia nervosa in which she refers to Simone as the "Patron Saint of 20th century anorexics."
She has published two works on Simone:
Simone Weil. Penguin Lives. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001
"Loving and Hating Simone Weil." American Scholar 70 3 (2001): 5-11. Published in the "At Large and at Small" column.
Debra Jensen and I have worked together on the compilation of an international bibliography of critical works on Simone Weil. Currently over 5,000 titles are listed online as Simone Weil Bibliography (https://simoneweil.library.ucalgary.ca/) . With Debra's untimely death in July 2012, the English language material will no longer be annotated, but I will continue to post updates to the bibliography and to this blog.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Great source for recent Italian Books on Simone
Just did a search for Simone on http://www.unilibro.it/ and located the following 2012 Italian works on her:
Gianfreda, Fausto. Il Graal. Di Simone Weil. Pazzini, 2012.
Giuliana, Kantzá. Tre donne, una domanda. Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein. Ares, 2012.
Searching "simone weil" retrieves over 150 books!
Gianfreda, Fausto. Il Graal. Di Simone Weil. Pazzini, 2012.
Giuliana, Kantzá. Tre donne, una domanda. Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein. Ares, 2012.
Searching "simone weil" retrieves over 150 books!