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Illuminations : essays and reflections / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Harry Zohn ; edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.

by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Literature -- History and criticism.

9781328470232 (pbk)

Works. Selections English 1968

1st Mariner Books ed.

lxiii, 238 p. ; 21 cm.

"Originally published in Germany [under the title Illuminationen] by Suhrkamp, Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. copyright © 1955"--T.p. verso.

Selection of texts taken from the author's Schriften, 1955, and previously published in 1968.

The German title Illuminationen of this work is identical to an unrelated selection of the author's Schriften published in 1961.

Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unpacking my library -- The task of the translator -- The storyteller -- Franz Kafka -- Some reflections on Kafka -- What is epic theater? -- 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.

"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 his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin’s theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in dark times. Also included is a preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times."--Publisher.

Literary criticism.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

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