The Late Walter Benjamin

The Late Walter Benjamin
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781441131584
ISBN-13 : 1441131582
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Book Synopsis The Late Walter Benjamin by : John Schad

Download or read book The Late Walter Benjamin written by John Schad and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis. Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the estate and to Benjamin's last days, as he moves across Europe seeking ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism, forged in exile, for the very different context of a displaced working class community in post-war Britain.


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