George Steiner

The past week saw the passing of influential literary critic George Steiner.   I have collected a number of articles about Steiner and Weil as well as works by Steiner on Weil.

Simone Weil's influence on Murdoch - further update

The  Simone Weil Bibliography now contains 64 works on Weil and Murdoch.   Not yet included in this list are the articles on Weil and Murdoch  published in Iris Murdoch Review v. 8, 2018  full issue is available on the web -  https://d3mcbia3evjswv.cloudfront.net/files/IMR8%20final%20interior.pdf?f64VNLiqBJzY6omMCtWD7uAallFDa00h

Gravity and Grace - index to location of quotations in Weil's notebooks

The American Weil Society has posted this helpful guide compiled by Martin Andic and edited by Eric Springsted.

Notebook Sources for Gravity and Grace Quotations

Also available here: https://docslib.org/notebook-sources-for-gravity-and-grace-quotations

In his introduction Springsted highlights the issue of the loss of Weil's original context in Gustav Thibon's compilation of her papers and notebooks:


--> "Yet, GG is still widely read and deservedly so. One should keep it on her night stand. But, truth be told, for anyone who would write on Weil, GG is sand that one should carefully avoid building a house on.  In GG the entries are striking and well worth quoting and thinking about. But they do not reflect Weil’s own ordering of them, or anything even close, even within separate chapters, to the flow of her thought."