Benjamin's Crossing: A Novel - Brossura

Parini, Jay

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ISBN 10: 0805058249 ISBN 13: 9780805058246

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 1998

Riassunto

A New York Times Notable Book

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was among the most important intellectuals of this century: a seminal critic and philosopher. He has, in the past three decades, acquired almost cult status in the academic world. In Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini tracks Benjamin through his last, terrible months. The story opens with his desperate flight from Paris, on the heels of the Nazi invasion in 1940. It depicts his various, often tragicomic, attempts to flee France, culminating in his frantic escape over the Pyrenees into Spain. Benjamin's Crossing is a lyrical novel of ideas. It is also a love story dramatizing one of the most moving peripheral episodes of the Holocaust.

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L'autore:

Jay Parini is an acclaimed poet, novelist, and biographer. He is currently at work on a major new biography of Robert Frost, to be published by Holt in the fall of 1998. He teaches at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont.

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805058249
• ISBN 13: 9780805058246
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 305