Origin of German Tragic Drama

Benjamin’s most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism

About the author

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.George Steiner, author of dozens of books (The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Heidegger, In Bluebeard's Castle, My Unwritten Books, George Steiner at the New Yorker), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.

Summary

Benjamin's most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benjamin, BENJAMIN WALTER
• Assisted by: Steiner George (Introduction), John Osborne (Translation), Osborne John (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781804290460
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-046-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights