Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> 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 everyday life art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts assortments of images texts and signs themselves representing experiences ideas and hopes each of which was enthusiastically logged systematized and analyzed by their author. In them Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This unique book produced in association with the Benjamin Archive delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photographs of a home with luxurious furniture arcades Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers card indexes and catalogs; notebooks in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son’s first words and sentences riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else. (SP)