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War and the Iliad
War and the Iliad
Author: Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Mary McCarthy
Simone Weil's essay on Homer is one of the uncompromising mystic moralist's most famous and powerful works — a reading of Homer which is also a nightmare vision of war as a machine in which all humanity is lost. Since it first appeared in 1939, it has served as a manifesto of pacifism. Rachel Bespaloff's recently rediscovered essay on Homer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781590171455
ISBN-10: 1590171454
Publication Date: 3/10/2005
Pages: 121
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Publisher: New York Review of Books
Book Type: Paperback
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