War and the Iliad /
"Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" is one of her most celebrated works - an analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the essay has often been read...
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| Format: | Manuscript Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
©2005.
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics
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