Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Lysergius - GoodreadsThere is a certain similarity with one's own childhood. Yet it is the differences, and Benjamin's prose that are most enlightening... Shades of Proust and Joyce too. Excellent Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Margaret - GoodreadsNot what I was expecting. I will probably read it again later. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsWritten in exile, Berlin Childhood around 1900, offers fragmentary recollections of Benjamin's Jewish, upper-middle-class childhood. Opposed to a lot of his more theoretical work, the book, focuses on ...
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Erica - GoodreadsA fascinating collection of essays that are meditations on his childhood memories, dripping with aura and sentimentality. A very different view of Benjamin than the greatest hits version often presented in school. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Benjamin Thomas Sutpen - Goodreadshttp://sensemania.blogspot.com/2012/0... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Steve Kettmann - GoodreadsI found this volume disappointing. Partly it was the packaging of this particular edition, which attempted to solve the problem of various differing editions published at different times having ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Elizabeth K. - GoodreadsI'm certain I haven't read any Walter Benjamin since college, although I always recall "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" quite fondly. This is a series of very short descriptions ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Lorraine - GoodreadsThis is absolutely beautiful. There is so much in here about magic, memory and ghosts. It's all written in the most poetic prose with the most striking images; the apple, the butterfly-hunting, the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - Ross Perlin - GoodreadsOnly recently translated into English and recognized as a work in its right, this slender volume evokes the life of objects and sensations in Benjamin's early childhood, echoing and contrasting with A ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Berlin Childhood around 1900
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsHauntingly beautiful vignettes about Benjamin's childhood memories in Berlin. Deals with the difficulty of memory, issues of linear time and the Benjaminian interactions/crashing together of past and present.
