The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices

This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings another volume of Walter Benjamin's work into a superb new translation. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) began to ruminate on his Berlin childhood not long before he fled Germany for good, in 1933. The resulting "Berlin Chronicle" notices - forty in all - explore the ways of memory in relation to place - in light of Benjamin's own memories and in relation to his native place. Rich in themselves, these "Chronicle" notices provide a unique key to the esoteric texts Benjamin would produce for his much-loved "Berlin Childhood circa 1900".
Includes a folded map. Offset printed with hand-stamped cover.