Rachel Bespaloff
Rachel Bespaloff (1895–1949) was a Ukrainian-French philosopher.[1]
Life
Rachel Bespaloff came from a
Office of War Information before teaching French at Mount Holyoke College. She committed suicide in 1949.[1]
Bespaloff's correspondence with
Boris de Schloezer, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jean Wahl
has been posthumously published.
Works
- 'Sur la répétition chez Kierkegaard', Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger (May–June 1934)
- Cheminements et carrefours: Julien Green, André Malraux, Gabriel Marcel, Kierkegaard, Chestov devant Nietzsche, 1938.
- 'Notes sur les Etudes kierkegaardiennes de Jean Wahl', Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger (June–July 1939), pp. 301–23.
- 'The Twofold Relationship', Contemporary Jewish Record, 6: 3 (June 1943), pp. 244–53.
- On the Iliad. Translated by Mary McCarthy, with an introduction by Hermann Broch. Pantheon Books. The Bollingen Series IX, Washington, 1947.
- 'L'instant et la liberte chez Montaigne', Deucalion 3 (1950), pp.
- Le monde du condamné à mort, Esprit, January 1950. Translated as 'The World of the Man Condemned to Death', in Germaine Brée, ed., Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1962.
- 'Lettres au R. P. Gaston Fessard', Deucalion 5 (1955), pp. 65–107.
- Lettres à Jean Wahl, 1937-1947: Sur le fond le plus déchiqueté de l'histoire, ed. Monique Jutrin. Paris: Claire Paulhan, 2003.
References
- ^ a b c Rachel Bespaloff, New York Review of Books
- ISBN 1-55849-531-2.