2 Ergebnisse.

A graphic biography, first installment. It opens in Berlin at the start of World War I. 23-year-old Walter Benjamin meets Gerhard Scholem, 17. They become fast friends. Benjamin is already a strikingly original thinker with a voracious curiosity. Scholem is forming the commitments that sent him to Palestine in 1923 and led him eventually to write the definitive book on Jewish mysticism. This is the story of a friendship between two extraordina...

Characters of days. In slow time the unspoken passions of the two young men transform into signals of their purity for each other, even as they disappoint. Millions of men their age from all walks of Europe and the Middle East are casually wiped out in days. Characters of days. Big stick figures make pronouncements and plans. Big weapons turn their aim as liberally as the sun. No one seems to believe they are not alone until they can pour thei...