A Second Life in a Second Language: A Change of Language for a Writer Is a Dangerous Thing
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By Costica Bradatan from newyorktimes.com: In her exploration of the Catholic religion, “Letter to a Priest,” written the year before her death in 1943, Simone Weil noticed at some point that “for any man a change of religion is as dangerous a thing as a change of language is for a writer. It may turn […]