Selected Writings, 1927-1934 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Benjamin
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Essays and diaries
- Time of Work: 1927-1934
- Setting: Moscow and Western Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Essays, Diary
- Subjects: Communism or communists, 1920’s, 1930’s, Books, Criticism, Western Europe or western Europeans, Russia or Russian people, Moscow
- Locales: Europe, Moscow, Russia
Walter Benjamin was a distinguished literary and cultural critic with close ties to the Frankfurt School, especially to his friend Theodor Adorno. He received a doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Berne in 1919. In a short “Curriculum Vitae (III)” he explains his critical approach: “Such an analysis would regard the work of art as an integral expression of the religious, metaphysical, political, and economic tendencies of its age, unconstrained in any way by territorial concepts.” Good examples of this approach are found in this volume in the pieces on Johann...
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