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We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life.
The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin, published here in its complete form for the first time, is the document of a great friendship that existed independently of Benjamin's relationship with Theodor W. Adorno. While Benjamin, alongside his everyday worries, writes especially about those projects on which he worked so intensively in the last years of his life, it was Gretel Karplus-Adorno who did everything in her power to keep Benjamin in the world.
She urged him to emigrate and told him about Adorno's plans and Bloch's movements, thus maintaining the connection between the old Berlin friends and acquaintances. She helped him through the most difficult times with regular money transfers, and organized financial support from the Saar region, which was initially still independent from the Third Reich. Once in New York, she attempted to entice Benjamin to America with her descriptions of the city and the new arrivals from Europe though ultimately to no avail.
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Matthew Whitty
reviewed Correspondence 1930-1940 on September 04, 2019 Correspondence 1930-1940
"You asked so kindly how I am. And the only sincere answer I can give is: pitiful …"
"… and as ever I am turning to you when
there is something special on my mind that I cannot quite deal with by myself."
"It is not so much books that I lack as someone with whom to exchange a few words."
"I have the feeling you understand me, even if I do not talk a great deal about myself, your
friendship is so unegotistical. And where, ultimately, is the fine line
between friendship and love ?"
"there is no one to whom I feel so close in letter, and there is nothing in the world as tender as the words you merely hint at."
"It is a great shame that I cannot speak to you, there is so much to say and to clear up, and everywhere nothing but obstacles."
"I would like to write more. But I fear that such a letter would exhaust the recipient no more than the author. And what could I add
that has not already been sown between its lines as if they were furrows ?"
"… being together for only a few weeks and then separated once more for months is a state that will sadly continue for years in our case."
"Every word I say is connected to him, and if I lose that bond I will no longer exist."
"My nervousness, which has a variety of causes, has reached a level that can hardly be surpassed; the impossibility of written communication of any prospect of change completely deadens, and I fear you would not have much joy with me."
"I know that one cannot, unfortunately, escape from one's own life, but it is only now that I have reached the point where I am prepared for anything, any loss, and without any joy at all."
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