Illuminations
Benjamin, Walter / Arendt, Hannah / Rudnicki, Stefan / Bews, Alison Belle / Zohn, Harry
Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust, and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, a...