Illuminations : Essays and Reflections

from deliriumslibrarian

They really are. Essays like lamps in the window of the long night of the C20th. A book to return to and re-read.

from gregorybrown

Walter Benjamin is awesome, and any difficulties I had following the work, I ascribe to the translation and to my ignorance about some of the subjects (especially Baudelaire and Proust). He's wonde...

from frenchphenom5

So much to say about this book. One of my favorite times when i read it was when the power was cut out due to a storm, I lit a candle and proceeded to read Illuminations. Not making this up. "N'emp...

from reedist

A thousand stars for this book. If I had only one book, it would be this one.

from bloom

In 1940 Walter Benjamin committed suicide at the Franco-Spanish border fearing that he would be unable to escape the grasp of Hitler's regime. He left behind perhaps one of the finest collections o...