Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Name: Berlin Childhood Around 1900
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ISBN: 9780674022225

ISBN-10: 067402222X

ISBN-13: 9780674022225

Edition: 2006

Authors: Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland

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Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. 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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



Translator's Foreword ""Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin""



Childhood around 1900: Final Version Loggias* Imperial Panorama


Victory Column


The Telephone


Butterfly Hunt


Tiergarten


Tardy Arrival


Boys' Books


Winter Morning


At the Corner of Steglitzer and Genthiner


Two Enigmas


Market Hall


The Fever


The Otter


Peacock Island and Glienicke


News of a Death


Blumeshof 12


Winter Evening


Crooked Street


The Sock


The Mummerehlen


Hiding Places


A Gh