Articles by Walter Benjamin

• 1940 Survey of French Literature
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR 51, May-June 2008, pp. 30-45
  Subjects: France , Literature
  

  Benjamin’s last, unpublished report on the literary situation in France. Critical reflections on the fiction, philosophy, memoirs and art criticism of the time—and on Paris, Surrealism and the logic of Hitlerism—moving constantly from the realm of letters to a world at war.

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• Goethe: The Reluctant Bourgeois
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/133, May-June 1982, pp. 69-93
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• A Radio Talk on Brecht
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/123, September-October 1980, pp. 92-96
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/108, March-April 1978, pp. 47-56
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
  

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• Conversations with Brecht
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/77, January-February 1973, pp. 51-57
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• The Author as Producer
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/62, July-August 1970, pp. 83-96
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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• Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
  • Walter Benjamin

  in NLR I/48, March-April 1968, pp. 77-88
  Subjects: Aesthetics
  

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