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The Archiveby Walter Benjamin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection. 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. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w. Book News Annotation:Along with the notes that lead to his amazing body of work, Benjamin
collected artifacts, images, texts and signs, all of which he
carefully categorized, logged and analyzed. Some of them related to
his hopes and dreams, his musings and commentary on the state of the
arts, sentimental objects, germs of ideas for his work, catalogs,
records of his son's first words, and a host of bits and pieces, all
of which were interlinked in his mind. Beginning with an astute
assessment of Benjamin as archivist, the editors describe the tiny
scraps which to him loomed large, illustrations of Russian toys,
notebooks, picture postcards, outlines and scraps of compositions,
interesting graphic forms, studies of arcades, word games, and a
series of Siena mosaics. The photographs of the artifacts are of high
quality and well chosen, and the collection as a whole provides
significant insight into Benjamin's preoccupations and working
methods.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:The works of the great literary and cultural critic Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, and fragments of everyday life. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamins habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. About the AuthorWalter Benjamin was born in Germany in 1892 and died in Spain in 1940. His other books include Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and, with Verso, One-Way Street and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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