Benjamin's Crossing - Paperback
by Jay Parini
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525562757ISBN-10:525562753UPC:9780525562757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, JewishSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1A0D42WV
Benjamin's Crossing
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780525562757ISBN-10:525562753UPC:9780525562757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, JewishSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1A0D42WV
JAY PARINI, a poet and novelist as well as biographer, is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. His novels include The Last Station (adapted as an Academy Award-nominated film and translated into more than thirty languages), Benjamin's Crossing, and The Passages of H. M. His poetry includes The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems and the forthcoming New and Collected Poems,...
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