Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Verso (2007), Hardcover, 311 pages
Description
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.
Physical description
311 p.; 6.43 inches
Language
Original publication date
2006 (original German)
2007 (English translation)
ISBN
1844671968 / 9781844671960