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The Archiveby Ursula Marx
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized and analyzed by their author. In them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This unique book, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photograps of a home with luxurious furniture, arcades, Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers, card indexes and catalogs; notebooks, in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son's first words and sentences; riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author. 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. Synopsis:An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents. Synopsis: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. 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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