One-Way Street and Other Writings

Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; "Unpacking My Library", a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional "Hashish in Marseille"; and, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age. It contains: "Unpacking My Library"; "One-Way Street"; "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"; "Brief History of Photography"; "Hashish in Marseille"; "On the Critique of Violence"; "The Job of the Translator"; "Surrealism"; "Franz Kafka"; and, "Picturing Proust".

ISBN 0141189479   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780141189475 (What's this?)   Pages 304 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 228 Imprint Penguin Classics   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 29 Oct 2009   Width (mm) 129 Translator J.A. Underwood   Spine width (mm) 17 Writer of introduction Amit Chaudhuri   Academic level General DEWEY 838.91209

		Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri
		On the Critique of Violence		1
		The Task of the Translator		29
		One-way Street		46
		Hashish in Marseille		116
		Picturing Proust		126
		Surrealism		143
		Unpacking My Library		161
		Brief History of Photography		172
		Franz Kafka		193
		The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction		228
		Notes		260

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