Inhalt: | Preface : "The red virgin" and "The red clay virgin" -- Two twentieth-century women and the world -- The poetics of philosophy and fiction -- Attention and apprenticeship : Simone Weil's "Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God," "The love of our neighbor," and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "The artificial nigger" and "The displaced person" -- Beauty and charity : Simone Weil's "Letter to a priest," Notebooks, and "Love of the order of the world" : Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people," "The lame shall enter first," and "Revelation" -- Suffering and affliction : Simone Weil's "The love of God and affliction" : Flannery O'Connor's "The enduring chill" and The violent bear it away -- Grace and decreation : Simone Weil's "Forms of the implicit love of God" and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" and "A view of the woods" -- Conclusion : the enduring world. Explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA |
