Berlin childhood around 1900, Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland
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Berlin childhood around 1900, Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index
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autobiography
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Berlin childhood around 1900
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Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland
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Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century becomes an occasion for unified "expeditions into the depths of memory." In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child--a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one
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Translator's foreword -- "Hope in the past : On Waler Benjamin" / Peter Szondi -- Berlin Childhood around 1900 : Final version -- From the 1932-1934 version -- Complete table of contents, 1932-1934 version
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