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"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time
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"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."
--George Steiner
--The Nation "This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time
About the Author
Walter Benjamin is recognized as one of the most acute analysts of literary and sociological phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He died in 1940.
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