Walter Benjamin
Subtitle: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)
Contributors: Lee Siegel (Introduction) (Introduction)
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: April 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781590170328
Subjects: Biography: general; Literature: History & Criticism; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy; General; Benjamin, Walter,; Political; German Prose; Literary; Literary Criticism; German; Biography/Autobiography; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard,; European - German; Biography; Philosophers; Biography & Autobiography / Political; 1897-; 1892-1940; 1897-1982; 20th century; Authors, German; Friends and associates
First sentence: BEFORE I made Walter Benjamin's personal acquaintance, I saw him in the autumn of 1913 at a meeting that took place in a hall above the Cafe Tiergarten in Berlin.