This French version of Kafka, this cross between Pascal and Orwell remains unclassifiable. She is intellectually stateless, prophet without any country in which she can be sure of honor. A Catholic Jewess who criticized impeccably both traditions, she is a voice crying in the wilderness, an outsider, the patron saint of all outsiders.
–David McLellan, Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil
