The Liar's Wife (2014)
“She studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. But from an early age, her astonishing intellectual commitment (she became fluent in ancient Greek by the age of ten) was joined by a heartfelt identification with the poor and suffering. Simone de Beauvoir, a fellow student at the École Normale, encountered Simone Weil weeping after learning of the deaths of victims of Chinese famine. Simone Weil told Simone de Beauvoir that the most important thing in the world was the coming re...volution that would feed all the starving people of the earth. Simone de Beauvoir responded that the most important thing was to help people find a reason for their existence. Simone Weil snapped back: “It’s easy to see that you’ve never gone hungry.”
She saw herself allied with the politics of the left, but always on her own terms. At the age of ten, she declared herself a Bolshevik, but she earned the enmity of committed Communists when she repudiated Stalin in the early 1930s, among the first to see in him the same tyranny of force that marked Hitler and Mussolini.MoreLess
She saw herself allied with the politics of the left, but always on her own terms. At the age of ten, she declared herself a Bolshevik, but she earned the enmity of committed Communists when she repudiated Stalin in the early 1930s, among the first to see in him the same tyranny of force that marked Hitler and Mussolini.MoreLess
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