Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death

Walter Benjamin

1934

The Little Hunchback

Some time ago it became known that Knut Hamsun was in the habit of expressing his views in an occasional letter to the editor of the local paper in the small town near which he lived. Years ago that town was the scene of the jury trial of a maid who had killed her infant child. She was sentenced to a prison term. Soon…

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Walter Benjamin

1892–1940

Born into a wealthy business family in Berlin, the critical theorist Walter Benjamin went into exile in 1932 during the turmoil preceding the Nazi seizure of power. He committed suicide in 1940 while trying to escape from France, via Spain, to Portugal, where he hoped to sail to the United States. His essays on aesthetic theory, especially “The Task of the Translator” (1923) and “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), became foundational texts in university humanities departments in the late twentieth century.

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