Walter Benjamin - Berlin Childhood around 1900 non-fiction without reason or mercy

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Walter Benjamin - Berlin Childhood around 1900 non-fiction without reason or mercyPresents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper middle class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Afterword by Theodor Adorno Introduction by Antonia Hofstatter Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen