pinkmooon 's review for:

On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil, Czesław Miłosz, Simon Leys

2.0

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Weil’s essay is interesting, albeit short. I don’t know why they didn’t bundle this essay with two or three more of her’s, because it really is too bitty to seriously engage the reader. To fill up space we have an essay by Czeslaw Milosz about Weil, and then an essay by the translator...about Milosz, mostly. If you’re interested in Simone Weil, start somewhere else. The only thing you’ll really glean from reading this is that she was a principled, idiosyncratic woman who died young and became something of a waifu-martyr figure for sensitive continental men. I wish I was joking, but that’s the vibe I felt from the supplemental essays. Gravity and Grace is very interesting, though.