NEW WALTER BENJAMIN BOOK FROM VERSO!
Walter Benjamin’s Archive
Publication: 4th February, 2008
ISBN 9781844671960/ $27.95/ £16.99/ $35CAN
“The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the twentieth century.” - George Steiner
“What becomes clear is that jottings and fragments, gathering in notes and notebooks and rearranged in alternate sequences and outlines, constitute the very processes of Benjamin’s imagination… and this book is a treasure trove of curios and enigmas.” - Times Higher Education Supplement
“These frayed leavings testify to the nobility of his undertaking: a lone mind battles against the death of culture and, in the process, almost forgets to fend off its own extinction.” - Observer
The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting, and a heartfelt traveller's series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin's own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan's early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin's complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the ephemera of human life.
Walter Benjamin was one of the most influential intellectuals of the last century, who is said to have invented the discipline of cultural studies and whose influence continues to resound through art and literature.
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