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The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as one of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during his lifetime by only a small circle of his friends and intellectual confreres. Scholem recognized the genius of his friend and mentor during their student days in Berlin, and the two began to correspond after Scholem's emigration to Palestine. Their impassioned exchange draws the reader into the very heart of their complex relationship during the anguished years from 1932 until Benjamin's death in 1940.
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Rod Franklin
reviewed Correspondence Of Walter Benjamin And Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 on August 04, 2011
Correspondence Of Walter Benjamin And Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940
What starts out as the gnarly somewhat comic correspondence of these great minds, becomes a full fledged tragedy, gun in first act included, in its second half. The never accomplished/always talked about meeting between Scholem and Benjamin becomes the utopian meeting point for the political and theological, as well as a missing point of solace for both Benjamin, as he moves knowingly onto his annihilation, and for Scholem, as he watches knowingly the Jewish entity he so wished for acquiring features taken from its worst enemies.
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