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By John Schad

ISBN-10: 1441171703

ISBN-13: 9781441171702

ISBN-10: 144117768X

ISBN-13: 9781441177681

A startling critical-creative exam of 1 of the 20 th Century's major thinkers, The past due Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the existence and dying of Walter Benjamin with the times, hours and mins of a working-class council property at the fringe of London in post-war Austerity England. the unconventional centres on one specific tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and basically ever makes use of phrases written by means of Benjamin, it seems that oblivious that the genuine Benjamin devoted suicide twenty years past while fleeing the Nazis. first and foremost set within the sixties, the textual content slips again to the early years of the property and to Benjamin's final days, as he strikes throughout Europe looking ever-more desperately to flee the 3rd Reich. via this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not just the emergence of Benjamin's pondering from a politicised Jewish theology compelled to confront the increase of Nazism but in addition the results of his utopian Marxism, cast in exile, for the very various context of a displaced operating classification group in post-war Britain.

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