Correspondence
Spiritual Autobiography
Autobiographie spirituelle (lettre au P. Perrin, mayo de 1942)
An account of her inner journey: the notion of purity at sixteen, her adolescent despair at lacking her brother's genius, the factory year, the 'three contacts with Catholicism' (Portugal, Assisi, Solesmes), Herbert's poem and the reasons why she does not seek baptism. It is the main primary source for her mystical experience.
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Authorship note
Letter written in Marseille shortly before sailing for Casablanca; the title was given by Perrin when he published it in Attente de Dieu (1950).
Editions and translations
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English
Waiting for God
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009
Translation: Emma Craufurd
ISBN 9780061718960
Other works by Simone Weil
- Gravity and Grace · 1947
- The Need for Roots · 1949
- Waiting for God · 1950
- Notebooks · 1951
- First and Last Notebooks (Supernatural Knowledge) · 1950
- Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression · 1934
- Oppression and Liberty · 1955
- The Worker's Condition (La Condition ouvrière) · 1951
- Factory Journal · 1935
- The Iliad, or the Poem of Force · 1940
- The Greek Source · 1953
- Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks · 1951
- Letter to a Priest · 1951
- London Writings and Last Letters · 1957
- Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred) · 1943
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties · 1943
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses · 1940
- Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God · 1942
- The Love of God and Affliction · 1942
- Forms of the Implicit Love of God · 1942
- Unordered Thoughts on the Love of God · 1962
- Lectures on Philosophy · 1959
- Science and Perception in Descartes · 1930
- On Science · 1966
- Historical and Political Writings · 1960
- Letter to Georges Bernanos · 1938
- Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again · 1937
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Weil, Simone. Attente de Dieu. Ed. Joseph-Marie Perrin. Paris: La Colombe, 1950 (incluye la «Autobiographie spirituelle», carta al P. Perrin de mayo de 1942). Texto en Wikisource.
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