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portada Benjamin's Crossing
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9780525562757

Benjamin's Crossing

Jay Parini (Author) · · Physical Book

Benjamin's Crossing - Jay Parini

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Synopsis "Benjamin's Crossing"

Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Firth and directed by Pat O'Connor.The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees into Spain, where they may (with luck) make their way to freedom in Portugal or South America.      Beloved biographical novelist Jay Parini's thrilling tale of escape is beautifully interwoven with vignettes of Benjamin's complex, cosmopolitan past: his privileged childhood in Berlin, his years with the German Youth Movement, his university days. His close friendship with Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, and many other well-known artists and intellectuals who were part of Benjamin's intimate circle between the two world wars. Part tragedy, part dark comedy, this sharply realized historical novel tells one of the great and most moving peripheral stories of the Holocaust.
Jay Parini
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Jay Parini es un escritor, poeta, novelista y biógrafo estadounidense. Nació el 2 de abril de 1948 en Pittston, Pensilvania, Estados Unidos. Creció en la ciudad de Scranton y desde joven mostró interés por la literatura y la escritura.

Estudió en Lafayette College, donde se graduó en 1970. Posteriormente, continuó sus estudios en la Universidad de St Andrews, en Escocia, donde obtuvo un doctorado en 1975. A lo largo de su carrera, Parini ha escrito novelas, poemas, biografías y ensayos.

Una de sus obras más conocidas es The Last Station, una novela que relata los últimos días de la vida del famoso escritor ruso León Tolstói. Esta obra fue adaptada al cine y recibió una nominación a los premios Óscar. También escribió Borges and Me, un libro basado en su experiencia al conocer y viajar con el escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges.

Parini también ha escrito biografías de importantes autores, como John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner y Gore Vidal. Además de ser escritor, trabajó como profesor de literatura y escritura creativa en Middlebury College.

Sus obras han sido traducidas a numerosos idiomas y es reconocido por sus aportes a la literatura estadounidense.
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