Research Catalog

Title

Berlin childhood around 1900 / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland.

Author

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xvi, 192 p. : ill.; 19 cm.

Summary

Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. This book is also one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis. It reads the city as palimpsest and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar.

Uniform Title

Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert. English

Alternative Title

Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert.

Subjects

• Memoirs (form)
• Biographies
• 1900-1910
• 1890-1900
• 1900-1999
• Authors, German > 20th century > Biography
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 > Childhood and youth

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Memoirs (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translator's Foreword -- Hope in the Past: On Walter Benjamin by Peter Szondi --- Berlin Childhood around 1900: Final Version -- Loggias -- Imperial Panorama -- Victory Column -- The Telephone -- Butterfly Hunt -- Tiergarten -- Tardy Arrival -- Boys' Books -- Winter Morning -- At the Corner of Steglitzer and Genthiner -- Two Enigmas -- Market Hall -- The Fever -The Otter -- Peacock Island and Glienicke -- News of a Death -- Blumeshof 12 -- Winter Evening -- Crooked Street -- The Sock -- The Mummerehlen -- Hiding Places -- A Ghost -- A Christmas Angel -- Misfortunes and Crimes -- Colors -- The Sewing Box -- The Moon -- Two Brass Bands -- The Little Hunchback -- The Carousel -- Sexual Awakening ---From the 1932-1934 Version -- Departure and Return -- The Larder -- News of a Death -- The Mummerehlen -- Society -- The Reading Box -- Monkey Theater -- School Library -- New Companion of German Youth -- The Desk -- Cabinets -- Beggars and Whores -- The Moon --- Complete Table of Contents, 1932-1934 Version.

ISBN

• 067402222X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780674022225

LCCN

^^2005055088

OCLC

• 63125611
• SCSB-11425712

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library