Mirror of Obedience

Simone Weil was a philosopher, a mystic, and an activist.Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and is a member of PEriTiA, Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin, Ireland. With Philip Wilson, she translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019). Philip Wilson teaches philosophy of religion, philosophy of literature and translation studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. With Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, he translated and edited Simone Weil’s verse tragedy Venice Saved (Bloomsbury, 2019).

• Translators’ BiographiesPrefaceAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Simone Weil as PoetChapter 2: Simone Weil and LiteratureList of AbbreviationsFurther ReadingPoems À une jeune fille riche / To a Rich GirlVers lus au Goûter de la Saint Charlemagne / Verses Read at the Feast of Saint CharlemagneÉclair / LightningPromethée / PrometheusÀ un jour / To a DayLa mer / The SeaNécessité / NecessityLes astres / The StarsLa porte / The GateFour Excerpts from Venice Saved Jaffier 1-3ViolettaSelected ProseConte: Les Lutins du feu / Tale: The Fairies of the Fire Le conte des six cygnes dans Grimm / The Tale of the Six Swans in GrimmOn the TranslationTranslators’ NotesBibliographyIndex

Panizza and Wilson’s Mirror of Obedience brings us closer to Weil’s understanding of the place of beauty in human life by and through her poems and selected prose.