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All about the Benjamins
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The Bookworm and the Angel
WALTER BENJAMIN:
THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP
By Gershom Scholem
New York Review Books, 302 pp., $14.95
SELECTED WRITINGS,
VOLUME 3, 1935-1938
By Walter Benjamin
Harvard University Press, 462 pp., $39.95
Two aspects of Walter Benjamin face each other across a narrow, bottomless chasm: the all too human pursuer of meaning-redemption-and his supernatural, Doppelgangland twin. Like a man with two left hands, on one we have the solitary intuitionist, heuristic bookworm, impoverished collector (of children's books and tattoo art, among other detritus), investigator ...
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