From World War I to the Civil War: a Fresco on Fascism and Revolution in Europe

El Pais

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Simone Weil, dressed with a militia monkey that hides a body in which not a single well-formed muscle is intuited, a rifle on her shoulder, looks at a camera between dislocated and proud through her intellectual gadgets. This photograph has always produced me a mixture of tenderness and admiration. The reencounter in the book The Sky and the ruins of Juan Andrade, who writes these words about the declassed philosopher who understood commitment a…