Understanding Brecht by Walter Benjamin
In this volume we find collected together Benjamin's most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor Bertolt Brecht. Benjamin's work still exerts an influence over philosophical and cultural thinking today.
A small bomb of ideas and vital argument* Guardian *
He does not abolish the distance between us and Leskov, or Brecht, or Kafka; he brings it to life. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second. * The Listener *
Reading Walter Benjamin's Understanding Brecht is like stumbling on a heap of gold that has been buried in a coal cellar for more than 30 years. * New Society *
Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century. -- George Steiner
He does not abolish the distance between us and Leskov, or Brecht, or Kafka; he brings it to life. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second. * The Listener *
Reading Walter Benjamin's Understanding Brecht is like stumbling on a heap of gold that has been buried in a coal cellar for more than 30 years. * New Society *
Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century. -- George Steiner
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859844182 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859844189 |
| Title | Understanding Brecht |
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2003-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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