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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... Marseilles more than any other city . Marseilles was the toughest of adversaries , and to " squeeze a single sentence out of Marseilles was more difficult than to write an entire book about Rome . " Hiding his own obsessions behind a ...
... Marseilles more than any other city . Marseilles was the toughest of adversaries , and to " squeeze a single sentence out of Marseilles was more difficult than to write an entire book about Rome . " Hiding his own obsessions behind a ...
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... Marseilles and the Provençal landscape . It is the hand - to - hand fight of tele- graph poles against Agaves , barbed wire against thorny palms , the miasmas of stinking corridors against the damp gloom under the plane trees in ...
... Marseilles and the Provençal landscape . It is the hand - to - hand fight of tele- graph poles against Agaves , barbed wire against thorny palms , the miasmas of stinking corridors against the damp gloom under the plane trees in ...
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... Marseilles in a hashish trance ; of who else might be sharing my intoxication this evening , how few . Of how I was incapable of fearing fu- ture misfortune , future solitude , for hashish would always remain . The music from a nearby ...
... Marseilles in a hashish trance ; of who else might be sharing my intoxication this evening , how few . Of how I was incapable of fearing fu- ture misfortune , future solitude , for hashish would always remain . The music from a nearby ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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