Walter Benjamin's Archive

<b>An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts images and documents</b> <p/> The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history art and thought; a reservoir of texts commentaries scraps and fragments of everyday life art and dreams. Throughout his life Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts assortments of images texts and signs themselves representing experiences ideas and hopes each of which was enthusiastically logged systematized and analyzed by their author. In this way Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. <p/> Intricate and intimate <i>Walter Benjamin's Archive</i> leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.