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Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Demetz.

by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Travel.

Intellectual life.

Literature -- History and criticism.

German essays -- 20th century.

German essays -- Translations into English.

9781328470225 (trade pbk)

1st Mariner books ed.

xlv, 369 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Translated from German.

A Berlin chronicle -- One-way street (selection) -- Moscow -- Marseilles -- Hashish in Marseilles -- Paris, capital of the nineteenth century -- Naples -- Surrealism -- Brecht's 'Threepenny novel' -- Conversations with Brecht -- The author as producer -- Karl Kraus -- Critique of violence -- The destructive character -- Fate and character -- Theologico-political fragment -- On language and such and on the language of man -- On the mimetic faculty.

"A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century."--Publisher.

Literary criticism.

Demetz, Peter, 1922-

Jephcott, E. F. N.

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