I agree with other reviewers about the high quality of Weil’s essay (and its intriguing style and content!) but I do think Milosz’s essay is useful. The translator though could benefit from writing more about Weil. Without his essay I’d give this book 5 stars.
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valeriesolanas rated Anarchism and the Black Revolution: 4 stars
valeriesolanas rated Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit: 4 stars
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I agree with other reviewers about the high quality of Weil’s essay (and its intriguing style and content!) but I do think Milosz’s essay is useful. The translator though could benefit from writing more about Weil. Without his essay I’d give this book 5 stars.
valeriesolanas rated I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem: 5 stars
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
A fictionalized account of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and …
valeriesolanas rated Always on Strike: 4 stars
valeriesolanas rated Against the State: 5 stars
valeriesolanas rated Days of War, Nights of Love: 3 stars
Days of War, Nights of Love by CrimethInc.
From Wikipedia: "A collection of political, social and philosophical essays written and published by anarchist collective CrimethInc. Most essays advocate …
valeriesolanas rated Poems from the Greenberg Manuscripts: 4 stars
valeriesolanas rated Remember Kronstadt: 4 stars
Remember Kronstadt
A hundred years ago the end of the Russian revolution came about as the Bolshevik forces under Trotsky and Lenin …
valeriesolanas rated Russian Counterrevolution: 4 stars
valeriesolanas rated Absolution: 4 stars
Jeff VanderMeer: Absolution (Paperback, 2024, McClelland & Stewart)
Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #4)
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy.
When the …
valeriesolanas rated The Coming Insurrection: 3 stars
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotext(e) Intervention Series, #1)
A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder …
