Reflections

Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

De: Walter Benjamin

Narrado por: Peter Demetz, Stefan Rudnicki

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.

Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the 20th century.

©2019 Originally published in Germany by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. English translation © 1978 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Unbearable narrator

I am deeply interested in Benjamin’s thought but I find this narrator’s irritating voice and apparent incomprehension of the material impossible to endure. Unfortunately he has narrated a number of books I would otherwise enjoy.

W. B. Writes beautiful long sentences. yea!

like getting into a warm bath.... snapshots of a distant era . Read hashish in Marseille.