Rocket and Lightship by Adam Kirsch
Author:Adam Kirsch [Kirsch, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780393243475
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00
The period of Benjamin’s adulthood and achievement was 1914 to 1940, the darkest in modern European history; and if no one ever wrote criticism the way he did, it is because no other critic felt the dislocations of the time so severely. Benjamin was born in Berlin in 1892, into a prosperous Jewish family, and his expectations were formed in the halcyon period before 1914. In “A Berlin Chronicle,” a series of newspaper articles that makes up the nucleus of Berlin Childhood Around 1900, he remembered the feeling of bourgeois security that suffused the very furniture in his family’s apartment:
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