Simone Weil's Iliad
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v40-2024-33%20Keywords:
Simone Weil, L'Iliade ou le poème de la force, Iliad, Homer, ForceAbstract
This article discusses the essay "L'Iliade ou le poème de la force" by Simone Weil (1940-1941) as an example of the reception of Homer's Iliad. It starts from its central idea, which is then explored in a close reading of some of its passages, with emphasis on how Weil translates Homeric quotations. Although the essay has often been lauded or, even more commonly, criticized by Hellenists, it has rarely been the subject of a discussion focused on Homeric studies. The aim is to show that Weil’s composition, due to its radical, innovative and aesthetically captivating character, contributes to a dialog with the ancient poem. Perhaps no other author has argued as acutely as Weil that much more than a praise of martial heroism, Iliad is rather and paradoxically a document that reflects barbarity.
Downloads
References
ADORNO, T. W.; HORKHEIMER, M. Dialektik der Aufklärung. In: NOERR, Gunzelin S. (org.) Max Horkheimer: gesammelte Schriften. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1987.
AUERBACH, E. Mimesis. A representação da realidade na literatura ocidental. Edição revista e aumentada. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2021.
BROUILLET, M. Le discours d’un roi: De la dénégation de responsabilité à l’agentivité partagée dans les excuses d’Agamemnon. Cahiers “Mondes anciens”, v. 12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4000/mondesanciens.2227ff. ffhal-02091939f
CLAY, J. S. Dying is hard to do. Colby Quarterly, v. 38, n. 1, p. 7-16, 2002.
DE JONG, I. J. F. Homer, Iliad Book XXII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
DUÉ, C. Homeric variation on a lament by Briseis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
FÉNELON, F. de. Telemachus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
GOLD, B. K. Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad. In: WYLES, R.; HALL, E. (ed.) Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. p. 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198725206.003.0019
HALL, E. The return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer‘s Odyssey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755693894
HALLIWELL, S. Pseudo-Longinus, On the sublime. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
HOLMES, B. Situating Scamander: “Natureculture” in the Iliad. Ramus, v. 44, p. 29-51, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2015.2
HOLOKA, J. P. Simone Weil’s “The Iliad or the poem of force”: A Critical Edition. Edição e tradução. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
HOMERO. Ilíada. Tradução e ensaio introdutório: C. Werner. São Paulo: SESI-SP / Ubu, 2018.
LESSER, R. H. Desire in the Iliad: The Force that Moves the Epic and its Audience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866516.001.0001
LEWIS, Pericles. The “true” Homer: Myth and Enlightenment in Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. New Vico Studies, v. 10, p. 24-35, 1992.
LONEY, A. The ethics of revenge and the meanings of the Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909673.001.0001
MACLEOD, C. W. Homer, Iliad Book XXIV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
MARTINDALE, C. Introduction: thinking through reception. In: MARTINDALE, C.; THOMAS, Richard F. (ed.). Classics and the Use of Reception. Malden: Blackwell, 2006. p. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470774007.ch
MATTOS, T. Os Cahiers de Simone Weil no Brasil: uma presença por vir. FlorAção, Revista de Crítica Textual do Labec-UFF, Niterói, v. 1, n. 1, p. s/n, 2021.
MEINECK, P. Homer and War since 1900. In: PACHE, C. O. (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. p. 519-522.
MUELLER, M. Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108666732
PORTER, J. I. Erich Auerbach and the Judaizing of philology. Critical Inquiry, Chicago, v. XXXV, p. 115-147, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1086/595631
PORTER, J. I. Odysseus and the wandering jew: the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment in Adorno and Horkheimer. Culture critique v. 74, p. 200-213, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.0.0061
PORTER, J. I. Erich Auerbach’ Earthly (Counter-)Philology. Digital Philology, v. 2, n. 2, p. 243-65, 2013.
PORTER, J. I. Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer. In: ROCHE, H. DEMETRIOU, K. (ed.). Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazy Germany. Leiden: Brill, 2018. p. 106-131. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004299061_006
PORTER, J. I. Homer: the very idea. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021.
The POSTCLASSICISMS COLLECTIVE. Postclassicisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226672458.001.0001
PUENTE, F. R. Simone Weil. Mulheres na Filosofia, Campinas, v. 6, n. 3, p. 55-69, 2020.
PURVES, A. C. Ajax and Other Objects: Homer’s Vibrant Materialism. Ramus, v. 44, p. 75-94, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2015.4
RICHARDSON, Nicholas. The Iliad: A Commentary. Volume VI, books 21-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
ROZELLE-STONE, A. R.; DAVIS, B. P. Simone Weil. In: ZALTA, Edward N.; NODELMAN, Uri. (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Summer 2023 Edition. Disponível em: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/simone-weil/. Acesso em: 14 fev. 2024.
RYBAKOVA, M. Imagination Versus Attention: Simone Weil Translating the Iliad. Arion v. 15, n. 2, p. 29-36, 2007.
SCHEIN, S. L. ‘War – What Is It Good for?’ in Homer’s Iliad and Four Receptions. In: SCHEIN, S. L. Homeric Epic and Its Reception: Interpretative Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. p. 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589418.003.0012
SCHEIN, S. L. Homer, Iliad Book I. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
SIMONSUURI, K. Homer’s Original Genius: Eighteenth-Century Notions of the Early Greek Epic (1688-1798). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
STOCKING, C. H. Homer’s Iliad and the Problem of Force. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
USHER, M. D. Theomachy, Creation, and the Poetics of Quotation in Longinus Chapter 9. Classical Philology 102, n. 3, p. 292-303, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1086/529474
VAN THIEL, H. Homeri Ilias. 2. ed. Hildesheim: Olms, 2010.
WEIL, S. A Ilíada ou o poema da força. In: WEIL, S. A condição operária e outros estudos sobre a opressão. Organização: Ecléa Bosi. Tradução: Therezinha G. G. Langlada. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1979. p. 319-344.
WEIL, S. Œuvres complètes. Edition publiée sous la direction d’ André A. Devaux et de Florence de Lussy. Tome II: Écrits historiques et politiques. Volume 3: Vers la guerre (1937-1940). Textes établis, présentés et annotés par Simone Fraisse. Paris: Gallimard, 1989.
WEIL, S. Œuvres complètes. Edition publiée sous la direction d’ André A. Devaux et de Florence de Lussy. Tome VI: Cahiers. Volume 1 (1933 – septembre 1941). Textes établis et présentés par Alyette Degrâces, Pierre Kaplan, Florence de Lussy et Michel Narcy. Paris: Gallimard, 1994.
WEIL, S. A Ilíada ou o poema da força. Tradução de A. Telles. In: HOMERO. Ilíada. Tradução de T. Vieira. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2020. p. 1011-1039.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Categories
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Christian Werner (Autor)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The authors retain author's rights but grant the journal the right of firsth publication. The works are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows sharing provided that the authors and this journal are properly ackonwledged.
