Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Benjamin, Walter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished...
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Author: Walter Benjamin
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Language: German
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Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Benjamin, Walter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

¥5,695

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

¥5,695
Author: Walter Benjamin
Format: Paperback
Language: German

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his large-scale defeats. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing.

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century becomes an occasion for unified expeditions into the depths of memory. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child--a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one.

This book is also one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis. It reads the city as palimpsest and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar.

As an added gem, a preface by Howard Eiland discusses the genesis and structure of the work, which marks the culmination of Benjamin's attempt to do philosophy concretely.

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780674022225
Language: German


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2006 pg. 17
New Yorker (The) 08/21/2006 pg. 79
Library Journal 03/27/2006

About the Author
Benjamin, Walter: - Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.Eiland, Howard: - Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin's writings.

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