Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical WritingSchocken Books, 1986 - 348 Seiten A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. |
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... Lenin passed in the course of his life , little electric lights flash . At Simbirsk , where he was born , at Kazan , Petersburg , Geneva , Paris , Cracow , Zurich , Moscow , up to the place of his death , Gorki . Other towns are not ...
... Lenin passed in the course of his life , little electric lights flash . At Simbirsk , where he was born , at Kazan , Petersburg , Geneva , Paris , Cracow , Zurich , Moscow , up to the place of his death , Gorki . Other towns are not ...
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... Lenin . Something similar is to be seen in many clubs . Wall newspapers are for grownups schemata of the same collective form of expression . They came into being under the pressure of the civil war , when in many places neither ...
... Lenin . Something similar is to be seen in many clubs . Wall newspapers are for grownups schemata of the same collective form of expression . They came into being under the pressure of the civil war , when in many places neither ...
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... Lenin is , for Bolsheviks , also mourning for heroic Com- munism . The few years since its passing are for Russian consciousness a long time . Lenin's activity so accelerated the course of events in his era that he recedes swiftly into ...
... Lenin is , for Bolsheviks , also mourning for heroic Com- munism . The few years since its passing are for Russian consciousness a long time . Lenin's activity so accelerated the course of events in his era that he recedes swiftly into ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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