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What's her best work? Gravity and Grace? The Need for Roots?

>> No.15911759

>>15910540
NIGGA who dis?

>> No.15912969

bump

>> No.15913616

I wish I could contribute, but I haven't read anything of hers. Still disappointed in the rest of this board.

>> No.15914360

>>15910540
Her essay on the iliad is excellent.

>> No.15914461

>>15914360
Harold Bloom thinks it's one of the best essays written on Homer but he doesn't like that she was anti-semitic.

>> No.15914483

>>15914461
>she was anti-semitic
How?

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>>15914360
This, G&G was compiled posthumously and is too easy to do a materialist reading of to find compelling
>>15914483
She converted to Christianity

>> No.15914699

>>15910540
Gravity and Grace is her most famous work.
>he doesn't like that she was anti-semitic.
She was not. She was critical, yes, but that doesn't entail racism.

>> No.15915041

>>15914483
Failed to be jewish enough

>> No.15915722

>>15914483
Marcionism is an anti-semitism.

>> No.15916188

i felt a bit sorry for her when i read about her incompetence during the spanish civil war

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>Croix. L’arbre du péché fut un vrai arbre, l’arbre de vie fut une poutre. Quelque chose qui ne donne pas de fruits, mais seulement le mouvement vertical. « Il faut que le fils de l’homme soit élevé, et il vous attirera à lui. » On peut tuer en soi l’énergie vitale en conservant seulement le mouvement vertical. Les feuilles et les fruits sont du gaspillage d’énergie si on veut seulement monter.
Eve et Adam ont voulu chercher la divinité dans l’énergie vitale. Un arbre, un fruit. Mais elle nous est préparée sur du bois mort géométriquement équarri où pend un cadavre. Le secret de notre parenté à Dieu doit être cherché dans notre mortalité.