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The Archive
by Walter Benjamin

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher 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 Author

Walter 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781844671960
Subtitle:
Images, Texts, Signs
Author:
Benjamin, Walter
Translator:
Leslie, Esther
Editor:
Marx, Ursula
Editor:
Schwarz, Gudrun
Editor:
Schwarz, Michael
Author:
Leslie, Esther
Publisher:
Verso
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Authors, german
Subject:
20th century
Publication Date:
December 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
310
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in