W.G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.
-- Green Henry, Sebald compassionately re-creates the ordeals of Eduard Morike, the German Romantic poet beset by mood swings, depression, and fainting spells in an increasingly shallow society, and Robert Walser, the institutionalized author whose nearly indecipherable scrawls …
W.G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyda…
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyda…
Intricate and intimate, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, this book leads right into the core of Walter Benjamin's work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of the author.
Intricate and intimate, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, this book leads right into the core of Walter Benjamin's work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of the author.
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyda…
The correspondence between Adorno and Thomas Mann documents the creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism which would be sustained right up until the novelist's death in 1955. This text offers the reader an insight into the writings, events and personal…
The correspondence between Adorno and Thomas Mann documents the creative tension between literary tradition and aesthetic modernism which would be sustained right up until the novelist's death in 1955. This text offers the reader an insight into the writings, events and personal…