The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized and analyzed by their author. In them, Benjamin laid the groundwork ...
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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized and analyzed by their author. In them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This unique book, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photograps of a home with luxurious furniture, arcades, Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers, card indexes and catalogs; notebooks, in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son's first words and sentences; riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
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Fine in fine jacket. Translated from the German by Esther Leslie. Black & white and color illustrations. 310 pages. 8vo, cream boards, pictorial d.w. London: Verso, (2007). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard cover in dust jacket., no flaws or wear. clean, no markings of any sort.; tight binding. no bumps, tears or labels. appears unused.; translated from german original by esther leslie. first printing thus.; 310pp., illustrated throughout in color, b/w. selection of documents, photos, manuscript sheets, jottings, texts, from the walter benjamin archive.
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