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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

By Walter Benjamin

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN
1328470229, 978-1328470225)
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1157296 bytes)
Edition
Original retail
Pages
416\0
Time added
2019-07-25 11:10:12
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Description

“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time 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. Benjamin 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.

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