Berlin Childhood around 1900
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067402222X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-05 |
| Language | : | German |
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Like Remembrance of Things Past, this is a work that deserves to be rediscovered by every generation. Through descriptions of furniture, rooms, buildings, parks, objects and the slight interactions between boy and world, Benjamin explores the dichotomies of longing, remembering and forgetting. Faithfulness to earlier editions leaves the book without a narrative arc, but doesn't detract from the artful mastery of the prose, which is preserved in the translation: "In addition to the upper region of the box, where these spindles nestled side by side, where the black needlebook glimmered and the scissors lay sheathed in their leather pockets, there was the dark underground, the chaos, in which the loosened ball of thread reigned supreme,
Benjamin is one of the foremost thinkers on culture. kim satchell Benjamin is one of the foremost thinkers on culture. He writes in an exquisite style that offers texture to the lucidity and intricacy of his enigmatic thought. Berlin Childhood is a significant accomplishment both in his ourvre and amidst the turmoil of his circumstances. There are definite connect. "On _Berlin Childhood_" according to Von D. There were probably "greater" books written in the last century, but there are none that I would miss more, more regret not having read--that does not make narrative, logical sense, so I think I have to stick with it. Hard to understand. Judith N. Alger Dense with redeeming sections.
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. Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats."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. 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 ph