Selected Writings: 1935-1938This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well as a diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka and Eduard Fuchs. |
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Brechts Threepenny Novel | 3 |
Johann Jakob Bachofen | 23 |
Paris the Capital of the Nineteenth Century | 32 |
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