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Moscow Diary

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Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is a remarkable figure even within the extraordinary diversity of 20th-century German intellectual culture. Beginning with studies of German Romanticism, Goethe, and Baroque theater, he then turned to the search for patterns in cultural development, seeking to begin with concrete, tangible phenomena of human life, often quite simple and ordinary. Chaplin's comedies, children's books, tabloid newspapers, old photographs, and Parisian arcades—all became fodder for him to reflect on the structure of culture.

His studies of literature—Baudelaire, Kafka, Proust, and Leskov—proved immeasurably broader than traditional literary scholarship. Walter Benjamin's restless nature led him to Moscow in the winter of 1926–27, a meeting that played a crucial role in his life. This edition of The Moscow Diary is supplemented by Russian translations of Benjamin's other works related to Moscow and an afterword by Sergei Fokin, which places this body of text in the context of Soviet culture of the period.
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