The Six Swans and the Girl Some considerations about the salvation in Simone Weil

• Main Author: Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2015-04-01
• Series: Teoliterária: Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias
• Online Access: http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/teoliteraria/article/view/22940

<p>This paper aims to show the connection that Simone Weil´s thought has always had with the literature, specially with the fables and tales. Fables and tales have true insights of the Truth coming from the depths of humanity unconscious and after that become true believed and appropriate by the cultures and civilizations. Among these fables and tales, there is one that has fascinated since childhood Simone: The six swans by Grimm.  In it,Simone, an agnostic and still knowing nothing of Christianity,describes the role of the girl who has saved his brothers from a spell. This tale, certainly has prepared the meeting of Simone with Christianity, as well as reading she did the Christian narrative of salvation wich she has lived herself.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Simone Weil; Grimm Tales; Theology and Literature.<br /><br /></p>