"Illuminations" contains his [Walter Benjamin] two most celebrated essays, "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" and "Theses on the philosophy of history", as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. The essay is Benjamin;s domain; those collected in this now legendary volume offer the best possible acces to his singular and significant achievement. In a sstimulating introduction, Hannah Arendt reveals how Benjamin's life and work are a prism to his times, and identifies gim as possessing the rare ability to think poetically.

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