Reservations of the Marvellous
T.J. Clark, 22 June 2000
The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland.
Harvard, 1073 pp., £24.95, December 1999,9780674043268 Show More
by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland.
Harvard, 1073 pp., £24.95, December 1999,
“... Benjamin’s project be attempted for the 20th century, by some stoic expatriate in Los Angeles or Hong Kong twenty years or so from now? Are there pieces of the gone city which one day a writer will teach us to fall in love with again? Maybe. Maybe the great cinemas of the 1930s and 1940s, a few of which, if we are lucky, will resist the logic of the ... ”
