Publisher's Synopsis
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study -The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, - an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
