War and the Iliad Cocktails in magazines

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It’s little wonder that directors such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino were so struck by them

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War and the Iliad Cocktails in magazinesSimone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the essay has often been read as a pacifist manifesto. Rachel Bespaloff was a French contemporary of Weil's whose work similarly explored the complex relations between literature, religion, and philosophy.