Illuminations /
"Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations 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. Also included are...
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London :
The Bodley Head Ltd,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Walter Benjamin: 1982-1940 / Hannah Arendt
- Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting
- The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux parisiens
- The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov
- Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death
- Max Brod's Book on Kafka: And Some of My Own Reflections
- What is Epic Theatre?
- On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
- The Image of Proust
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Theses on the Philosophy of History.