Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship / Gershom Scholem ; translated from the German by Harry Zohn ; introduction by Lee Siegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Friends and associates.

Benjamin, Walter.

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.

Scholem, Gershom.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Friends and associates.

Friendship.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Walter Benjamin : die Geschichte einer Freundschaft. Anglais.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2003.

Summary:

Gershom Scholem was a teenager when he and Walter Benjamin became close friends. Here he illuminates their common engagement with the Kabbalah and sharp disagreement over Marxism, while registering his undying sorrow at Benjamins refusal to emigrate to Palestine and his suicide in 1940. This remarkable memoir is both a portrait of two searching thinkers and a moving exploration of the meaning of friendship. An invaluable document about ... two of the centurys most profound minds. Kirkus Reviews

Notes:

Trad. de: Walter Benjamin : die Geschichte einer Freundschaft.

Première éd. anglaise publ. en 1981 par Jewish Publication Society of America.

ISBN:

1590170326

9781590170328

OCLC:

869083256