Simone Weil
Venice Saved
Posthumous work
Venice Saved
Venise sauvée
Jaffier, one of the conspirators, gives up destroying the city out of compassion for its beauty and defencelessness, and pays for it with his life. The play dramatises her idea that true greatness consists in renouncing the force one has at one's disposal.
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Authorship note
Unfinished tragedy written between 1940 and 1943, inspired by the 1618 Spanish conspiracy against Venice narrated by Saint-Réal; published by Gallimard in 1955.
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Simone Weil
Venise sauvée
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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
- Spiritual Autobiography · 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
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Wikisource en francés, «Auteur:Simone Weil» (relación de obras con fechas de redacción y publicación).
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