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Preface by Leon Wiesletier
INTRODUCTION
Walter Benjamin: 1892–1940, by Hannah Arendt
UNPACKING MY LIBRARY
A Talk about Book Collecting
THE TASK OF THE TRANSLATOR
An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire’s Tableaux parisiens
THE STORYTELLER
Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov
FRANZ KAFKA
On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death
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
Editor’s Note Index of Names
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Brent Ellingsen
reviewed Illuminations on May 25, 2014 Illuminations
For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.
There are hardly enough superlatives for this amazing collection of essays concerning Baudelaire, Proust, Kafka, messianism and the aesthetic tension between the cultic and the exhibitional. I had read Unpacking My Library a half dozen times previously and it still forces me to catch my breath. The thoughts on Kafka explore the mystical as well as the shock of the modern. The shock of the urban and industrial is a recurring theme in these pieces. Likewise is the dearth of actual experience and the onslaught of involuntary memory. It was a strange juxtaposition that this very morning I put down Illuminations and was enjoying my breakfast. Before me in the recent Bookforum was an article by Geoff Dyer about August Sander's People of the Twentieth Century Benjamin's idea of aura has likely morphed into something strange over the intervening 70 odd years.
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