Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag…
Diary of a man in despair
by Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz Percy
fromNew York Review Books classics
Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag…
Presenting the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper middle-class Jewish home in Berlin, this book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flan^eur, and allegorist in one.
Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it…
