Name: Escritos Franceses (in Spanish)
SKU: 11080632
Price: 1323.00 TWD
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Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9789505183982

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Physical Book

Author

Walter Benjamin

Publisher

Amorrortu

Synopsis "Escritos Franceses (in Spanish)"

Los escritos aquí reunidos corresponden al último período de la vida de Walter Benjamin: su exilio en Francia, desde 1933 hasta su suicidio en 1940, cuando no pudo obtener una visa para entrar a España. Ya se trate de los trabajos que su autor redactó en francés o de las traducciones en que colaboró directamente, como los cinco fragmentos de Infancia de Berlín, estos textos muestran que Walter Benjamin se vio en la necesidad de modificar la expresión de su pensamiento para adaptarlo a otro idioma, que también dibujan con precisión una imagen de la rica y compleja relación que mantuvo con la lengua y la literatura francesas, de Baudelaire a Proust y de Paul Valéry a los surrealistas.

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin was a prominent philosopher, literary critic, and art and history theorist born in Berlin, Germany. His work and critical thinking have had a profound influence on 20th century cultural studies.
Benjamin was born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. From an early age, he showed an interest in literature, music, and art.
In the 1920s, after serving in the German army during World War I, he joined the Frankfurt School, a circle of German intellectuals and social critics interested in transforming Marxist ideas. There, he met other thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who were major influences on his work and worldview.
Throughout his life, Benjamin was also deeply interested in politics and social issues. During the years of the Weimar Republic, he actively participated in the cultural and literary field. However, the rise of Nazism to power in 1933 forced him to leave Germany. He first went into exile in Paris and after the French occupation, Benjamin tried to escape to Spain to embark towards the United States, but was detained at the French-Spanish border. Faced with the imminent threat of being handed over to the German authorities, the author decided to end his life.

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