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...think Weil was a self-hater?" a student asked me provocatively over Sunday dinner after reading Elizabeth Hardwick's recent New York Times Book Review piece on this new biography of Simone Weil. The questioner was suggesting that Weil, the French Jewish philosopher who died of self-inflicted starvation during the Second World War, was driven in her life and was led to final self-destruction by a sense of racial shame and guilt...
Drawing from Hardwick's powerful summary of this troubling figure's 42 years, my company sought a facile, shrinky key to Weil's life history of self-punishment: her insistence as a child that she always carry the heaviest bundles on family trips; her stubborn rejection of all bourgeois fashion and living comforts; her willful insistence--while she held a well-salaried job with the Ministry of Education--to surround herself with only the bare necessities she thought the unemployed could afford...
Anyone hearing these lines now cannot help being reminded that three months after recording them, their author put her head in a gas oven. But as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, it is a mistake to view Plath's poems in the light of her suicide; like all good poetry, they stand on their...
...HUDSON'S DIARIES by MICHAEL HARDWICK...
SARAH'S STORY by MOLLY HARDWICK...