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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... night that followed it I noticed , half asleep , my mother and father coming quietly into my room at an unusual hour . I did not see them lock themselves in ; when I got up next morning there was nothing for breakfast . The house had ...
... night that followed it I noticed , half asleep , my mother and father coming quietly into my room at an unusual hour . I did not see them lock themselves in ; when I got up next morning there was nothing for breakfast . The house had ...
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... night , or a girl in a sea - blue dress stands at night beside green flaring bushes , waiting for her lover . No night of terror is as dark as this durable lacquer night in whose womb all that appears in it is enfolded . I saw a box ...
... night , or a girl in a sea - blue dress stands at night beside green flaring bushes , waiting for her lover . No night of terror is as dark as this durable lacquer night in whose womb all that appears in it is enfolded . I saw a box ...
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... Night , he entitles the logbook of this control . For night is the mechanism by which mere mind is converted into mere sexuality , mere sexuality into mere mind , and where these two abstractions hostile to life find rest in recognizing ...
... Night , he entitles the logbook of this control . For night is the mechanism by which mere mind is converted into mere sexuality , mere sexuality into mere mind , and where these two abstractions hostile to life find rest in recognizing ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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