Walter Benjamin

Broschiertes Buch

Illuminations

Beschreibung

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and Proust.

Autor

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a philosopher, translator and critic. Born in Berlin into a prosperous Jewish family, he made a precarious living as a literary journalist, championing the drama of Bertolt Brecht and translating the work of Baudelaire and Proust. He is most famous for his essays 'The Task of the Translator' (1923) and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936). With the rise of the Nazis in 1933, he emigrated for Paris, and in 1940 he fled for the Spanish border, where he committed suicide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bodley Head / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 234494
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781847923868
• ISBN-10: 1847923860
• Artikelnr.: 43307434

Rezensionen

From the evidence of this book I would suggest that Benjamin was one of the great European writers of this century Observer