Selected Writings Volume 2, Part 1, 1927-1930
(http://82.221.106.113/maker/5310644b334fe071e0b905d2) Walter Benjamin
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two
of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of
Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection
of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar
Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe,
Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the
Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary
essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long
article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging
commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz
Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended
autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended
discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of
the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such
subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary
history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as
Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

Memory of the World Librarian: Dorothy Porter

2025-02-18