Trésor éparpillé: The Treasure of Scattered Texts in Works by René Char and Simone Weil

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

1996

Author

Dargan, Joan

Editor

Dunaway, John M. Springsted, Eric O.

Book

The Beauty That Saves: Essays on Aesthetics and Language in Simone Weil

Pages

69-82

Publisher

Mercer University Press

Place Published

Macon, Georgia

Language

English

Keywords

suffering
Char, René

Annotation

Dargan sets the short works of the French poet René Char and the notebooks of Simone Weil against the background of WW II, emphasizing of the extremely difficult time in which the two writers lived. She argues the very act of writing was a form of resistance and carries with it an intensity very different from the world in which we now live. This context, Dargan maintains, must be invoked in any attempt to understand and appreciate such work, for only then can a modern reader comprehend its urgency and depth., as well as the courage of those who wrote it.

Notes

Also published as part of Dargan, Joan. Simone Weil : Thinking Poetically. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.