Correspondence 1930-1940

The correspondence sheds fresh light on the life and work of Walter Benjamin. who is widely recognised as one of the most original and influential social thinkers and literary critics of the 20th century

It also sheds fresh light on the very difficult conditions in which Benjamin, like many other German Jewish intellectuals in the 1930s, was struggling to survive

This is a unique book which will be of great interest to students and scholars in literary theory and literary criticism, cultural theory and social theory. As a poignant personal testimony to the last years of one of the 20th centuries greatest thinkers, it will also have a much wider appeal