Simone Weil was distressed by the large apartment her mother rented for her at Le Puy. To manage her suffering, Weil arranged for another lycée instructor to share it with her.
According to du Plessix Gray:
"Simone particularly detested the idea of having a living room and soon turned it into a large closet, filling it with ropes on which the two women were to hang their clothes and laundry." (51)
Apart from this written description (the "picture-making mechanism" that Willa Cather mentions in the last line of "Paul's Case" [1905] and alludes to at the beginning of My Ántonia [1918]), there are no pictures of this room. The closest I have come to seeing such a room is Eva Hesse's No title (1969-70) above.
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