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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gretel Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Henri Lonitz , Christoph GoddePublisher: Polity Press Imprint: Polity Press ISBN: 9781322229409ISBN 10: 1322229406 Pages: 313 Publication Date: 01 January 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThroughout the volume's 180 letters, the editors' scrupulous referencing and the extensive footnotes help us to decode the hermetic web of enquiries about close friends, in-jokes and mutual favours spun by the correspondents. The English translation skilfully navigates Benjamin's effusive idiosyncrasies and softens the clipped directness of both authors to reveal the comfortable familiarity beneath. Times Literary Supplement The correspondence between Gretel Karplus Adorno and Walter Benjamin documents a remarkable friendship. Benjamin valued Felizitas as a critic who was at once acute and sympathetic, and these letters bristle with some of the most challenging formulations of his thought in the 1930s. Yet their relationship also enabled Benjamin to reveal aspects of his life that remained hidden from even his closest male friends, including Adorno himself and Scholem. The letters thus offer a moving and surprisingly intimate account of the fate of a great intellectual struggling to survive - and to write - in exile. Michael Jennings , Princeton University Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |