Moscow Diary

Moscow Diary
Pròleg: Gershom Scholem
Traducció: Richard Sieburth
Editorial: Harvard
Pàgines: 150
Any: 2006
EAN: 9780674587441
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The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin´s intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is unique among Benjamin´s writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with his motives and conscience.Perhaps the primary reason for his trip was his affection for Asja Lacis, a Latvian Bolshevik whom he had first met in Capri in 1924 and who would remain an important intellectual and erotic influence on him throughout the twenties and thirties. Asja Lacis resided in Moscow, eking out a living as a journalist, and Benjamin´s diary is, on one level, the account of his masochistic love affair with this elusive--and rather unsympathetic--object of desire. On another level, it is the story of a failed romance with the Russian Revolution; for Benjamin had journeyed to Russia not only to inform himself firsthand about Soviet society, but also to arrive at an eventual decision about joining the Communist Party. Benjamin´s diary paints the dilemma of a writer seduced by the promises of the Revolution yet unwilling to blinker himself to its human and institutional failings.
Moscow Diary is more than a record of ideological ambivalence; its literary value is considerable. Benjamin is one of the great twentieth-century physiognomists of the city, and his portrait of hibernal Moscow stands beside his brilliant evocations of Berlin, Naples, Marseilles, and Paris. Students of this particularly interesting period will find Benjamin´s eyewitness account of Moscow extraordinarily illuminating.
Preface by Gershom Scholem
Moscow Diary
Appendices
´Russian Toys" by Walter Benjamin Letters from Walter Benjamin
Afterword by Gary Smith
Index

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Walter Benjamin (Berlín, 1892 – Puerto Bou, 1940) se uno de los pensadoras alemanes más importantes e influyentes del pasado siglo. Hijo de una asentada familia judía, pronto se vincularía a las corrientes de pensamiento de tradición marxista, siendo considerado una de las figuras destacadas de la Escuela de Frankfurt, junto cono Adorno y cono Horkheimer. Pensador brillante e independiente durante la República de Weimar, tuvo que emprender la vía del exilio, primero a París, y luego, tras la...Altres llibres de Walter Benjamin
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