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A Need for Roots

JL;DR SUMMARY The article discusses the complexities of Simone Weil's personal and intellectual life through her family correspondence, translated into English as "A Life in Letters." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityWorld War IiSpiritualityChristianityLiteratureJewish Christian RelationsIntellectual HistorySimone WeilFamily Correspondence

Places mentioned

Perpignan, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
"Bernard and Selma were already waiting at the Franco-Spanish border to take her home; they had moved to Perpignan to be as close as they could get to their incomprehensible daughter."
London, United Kingdom
"Writing from London, where she had gone to join the Free French movement."
New York, United States
"where her parents had found asylum after fleeing Vichy France."
Italy
"she writes jokingly to her parents, suggesting that the place was so pleasant, so serene that she wished she could stay there."
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