First Edition stated with correct letter sequence. In beige boards and green spine cloth with copper foil to type. Corners dinged/split. Front hinge separating at title page, but still solid. May have had glue repair to half-title page preceding. Small bookstore sticker to rear pastedown, otherwise clean. Jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with larger chip to top of spine at front panel with some rubbing underneath and smaller chip at heel of spine. Wear/nicks to spine ends and corners and light fading to spine. 1st Printing.

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Title: Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
Publication Date: 1978
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0151761892
ISBN 13: 9780151761890
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.

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"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."
--George Steiner

"Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism."
--The Nation

"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time

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