Illuminations - by Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Views from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century, Walter Benjamin<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." -- George Steiner <p/> Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's epic theater. <i>Illuminations</i> also includes his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history. <p/> Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in a dark historical era.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. <br>
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