Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

Name: Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781844671960

Walter Benjamin

17/12/2007
Verso Books

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Résumé

The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin s habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting and a heartfelt traveller s series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin s own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan s early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin s complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the archive.