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Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

Une histoire ... Au Royaume des Oublieux vivaient deux tribus séparées : celle des Têtes, qui commandaient, et celle des Mains, qui exécutaient. La Brigade de la Gomme veillait. Mais un jour, les Mains se mirent en grève et la propre fille du roi des Oublieux, la princesse Amal, disparut de Têtes-ville... ... Et une réflexion sur ... l'enracinement, l'attention aux autres, la justice et le sens du travail...