Berlin Childhood around 1900

Name: Berlin Childhood around 1900
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By Walter Benjamin

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Completed in exile in Paris, as the Second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. Berlin Childhood around 1900 is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the... Read More

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A new translation of Benjamin's moving and groundbreaking memoir of growing up.

A new translation of Benjamin's moving and groundbreaking memoir of growing up.

Description

Completed in exile in Paris, as the Second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. Berlin Childhood around 1900 is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of the city. These are expeditions into the depths of memory, moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks, and streets.

The memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness. As his friend, Adorno, wrote, the work is "illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance... the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781836740148

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Afterword by Theodor Adorno
Introduction by Antonia Hofstaetter
Introduction by Antonia Hofstatter

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 213g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.