Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature

Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil''s Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigone and Electra, the Iliad and Aeschylus'' Prometheus Bound. Apart from her article on the Iliad, Weil''s interpretations are not widely known, probably because they are fragmentary and boldly twist the classics, sometimes even contradicting their literal meaning. Meaney argues that Weil had an apolog...