Berlin Childhood around 1900
$29.60
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2026
Summary
Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of city. These are ‘expeditions into the depths of memory’, moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks and streets. The memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836740148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 183674014X |
| Author: | Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Antonia Hofstatter |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A recollection of moments at the confluence of individual memory and collective history…[an] active, inspired small book. – Sasha Frere Jones * 4Columns *
About The Author
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco’s government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.
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