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Walter Benjamin Camilla Send a noteboard - 25/01/2011 10:00:13 PM
He was a philosopher. But not a conventional one. He kind of gave up on academic writing when the examiners did not understand his habilitashonsschrift (or however you write that). Instead he wrote a lot of short ... memory-images? And literary images of cities, essay-style musings and all manner of lovely things. And some academic stuff (he was a part of the Frankfurt school). I love him.

You should read Benjamin and Nietzsche and Mann.

And Mann... I'm discouraged even to think of starting Der Zauberberg.


You could read his short prose. Death in Venice...

They make me want to learn German. So if you already know it, you should profit.

It's more a matter of "speaking a closely related language" than of "knowing it". :P


Same thing. :P
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/Discussion: Madame Bovary Tom - 20/01/2011 06:22:50 PM 20881 Views
Re: /Review: Madame Bovary Camilla - 20/01/2011 07:20:36 PM 2764 Views
Emma didn't try to transcend her world. She tried to escape it. And she failed. Miserably. Tom - 21/01/2011 06:25:36 AM 2184 Views
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I don't think I've even heard of Benjamin. Legolas - 25/01/2011 09:41:55 PM 2078 Views
Walter Benjamin Camilla - 25/01/2011 10:00:13 PM 3211 Views
I think he was the youngest son of Jacob. *NM* Tom - 26/01/2011 05:16:26 AM 1137 Views
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Never beats the reader across the head, eh? So what do you make of the ending? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:39:06 PM 2810 Views
The ending fits with the rest of the book, I believe Larry - 24/01/2011 11:04:02 PM 2849 Views
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