The Late Walter Benjamin
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,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4411-3158-4
- EAN: 9781441131584
- Produktnummer: 13845885
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 937 KB
- Abbildungen: 12
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JohnSchad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster.
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