Correspondence 1930-1940 by Gretel Adorno & Walter Benjamin

Author:Gretel Adorno & Walter Benjamin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780745694955
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-09-13T18:00:00+00:00

97 GRETEL KARPLUS TO WALTER BENJAMIN

BERLIN, 3.7.1935

3 July 1935.

Dear Detlef,

since my last letter I have spent two days in Frankfurt, where I found Teddie deeply dejected at the death of Agathe,1 but where I also had the chance to look at your letter2 and the exposé. After that letter, which was really directed at Teddie and me together, it seems to me that you do not appreciate it when your friends discuss your work in your absence, especially if they then report to you in the wake of that conversation. Therefore, to avoid any disharmony between us at all costs, I do not wish to pre-empt Teddie, not least because I know that I can only ever gain a proper impression from a finished text and am often fairly helpless when faced with a sketch. I find all sorts of details splendid, and at the moment I am most enthralled by paragraph V.,3 but all this is only on the basis of my first brief impression; I am dying to read the book in its complete state as soon as possible. Is there anything new regarding its external chances of realization, what have you heard from America? – Has Fritz extended the conditions for May and June4 to further months? You are so silent and are leaving me in the dark about your plans and possibilities; I would so like to hear from you very soon. Do not keep me waiting too long, as always ever

your

Felicitas

Might Krenek not be able to do something for ‘Berliner Kindheit’? Many thanks for sending the writing paper, which is just arriving now.

Original: typescript with handwritten postscript.

1 Adorno’s aunt had died on 26 June.

2 Benjamin’s letter of 31 May to Adorno; see Adorno–Benjamin Correspondence, pp. 87–92.

3 This section bears the title ‘Baudelaire und die Strassen von Paris’ [Baudelaire and the Streets of Paris].

4 Benjamin received 1000 francs from the institute from April to July, then from August 500 francs.

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