Description
Benjamin's most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism
About the Author
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
Reviews
Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of [the twentieth] century. * Sunday Times *
He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe. -- Susan Sontag
Book Information
ISBN 9781844673483
Author Walter Benjamin
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 284g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 20mm