The Sonnets - by Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Did you ever lose someone you loved, forever? Walter Benjamin did, and wrote 80 sonnets to remember him by.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>As the Third Reich advanced on Paris, Walter Benjamin entrusted his writings to the philosopher George Bataille. These eighty religious, lyric sonnets, produced in Benjamin's twenties in a sustained response to the suicide of his college friend in protest of the First World War, were among those writings. This first English translation, a bilingual edition, features extensive context and commentary.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Walter Benjamin, (born July 15, 1892, Berlin, Ger.--died Sept. 27, 1940, near Port-Bou, Spain) man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century. <p/>Carl Skoggard lives in Ghent, New York, and is a celebrated German translator and former editor and contributor to Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, an influential magazine of design and style.<br>
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