Simone Weil
Subtitle: a modern pilgrimage
By: Robert Coles.
Series: Skylight lives
Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.; Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The French writer and philosopher Simone Weil (1906-1943) devoted her life to a search for God - while avoiding membership in organized religion. She had a startling intellect, the social conscience of a grassroots labor organizer, and the certainty and humility of a mystic. And she persistently carried out her spiritual search in the company of the poor and oppressed.".

"Robert Coles's intriguing study of Weil - who has been called both saint and madwoman - details her short, eventful life, showing why she had a profound spiritual influence on so many others, among them T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Adrienne Rich, and Albert Camus." "This most accessible introduction, now updated with a new foreword by the author, shows us why this extraordinary life continues to inspire seekers everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index.
Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1987. With new foreword.