Berlin Childhood around 1900. Benjamin, Benjamin, 9781836740148 Free Shipping**
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Berlin Childhood around 1900Author(s): Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Antonia Hofstatter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Verso Books\nISBN-13: 9781836740148, 978-1836740148\nSynopsis\nComposed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin's Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later surrendered to fascism. No ordinary autobiography, the book is a Proustian experiment in memory and a meditative tour of the iconic spaces of a city irretrievably lost to the adult. Instead of details of family and friends, these miniatures evoke the sensory richness of childhood in images of the squares and courtyards, the parks and monuments of Berlin, the child's schoolbooks and the gloomy flats of elderly relatives. As Benjamin's friend Theodor Adorno writes in his afterword, 'the images the book brings up into a disturbing proximity are not .
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