La columna

In August 1936, at the beginning of the Civil War, the thinker Simone Weil, not yet thirty years old, went to the Aragón front to join the International Group of the Durruti Column. There, she suffers an accident and ends up returning to France. Of the forty-five days that she spent in Spain, little of her remains: a passport, notes for a diary, letters and photographs of her in uniform... For Simone, acting, writing and thinking were one and the same thing. And in all of her she was guided by passion and the desire for justice. In the midst of the chaos of a war, Adrien Bosc tells us about a very intense and tragic life in which he made a dent in his experiences in Spain. Throughout the work we not only follow in the footsteps of Simone Weil, but also those of other militiamen, we witness some controversy, and we approach the (apparently opposite) vision of the writer Georges Bernanos on the Civil War, who was in Majorca. Despite the ideological differences between the two, a letter from Weil to Bernanos reveals the extent to which witnessing the violence meant a change for both of them.