The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Benjamin
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1910-1940
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Socialism, Suicide, Poetry or poets, Paris, Nazism or Nazis, Humanism, Judaism, Satire, Theology
Out of the 332 letters in this collection, only six are by Walter Benjamin’s correspondents, all by Gershom Scholem and Theodore Adorno, who are also the editors of this volume. In all, Benjamin corresponded with more than thirty individuals, many of them world-renowned: In addition to Scholem and Adorno, they include Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Buber, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Horkheimer, and other important central European intellectuals of the first four decades of the twentieth century. Because this collection consists of letters by Benjamin, the volume reads more like...
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