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| Genre/Form: | Translations Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945 Translations into English |
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| Named Person: | Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Benjamin; Lecia Rosenthal |
| ISBN: | 9781781685754 1781685754 |
| OCLC Number: | 868199627 |
| Notes: | "Translations in this volume are based on Benjamin's radio typescripts as published and edited in the Gesammelte Schriften." |
| Description: | xxix, 394 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Youth hour : Radio stories for children -- Radio plays for children -- Radio talks, plays, dialogues, and listening models -- Writings on radio, off air. |
| Other Titles: | Broadcasts. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lecia Rosenthal ; translated by Jonathan Lutes with Lisa Harries Schumann and Diana K. Reese. |
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"Everything which fell under the scrutiny of his words was transformed, as though it had become radioactive." --Theodor Adorno "A complex and brilliant writer." --J.M. Coetzee "Walter Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre." --Hannah Arendt "Benjamin buckled himself to the task of revolutionary transformation ... his life and work speak challengingly to us all." --Terry Eagleton "There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." --George Steiner "Radio Benjamin could hardly be bettered... There really is no parallel for what Benjamin did in these talks. Imagine a particularly engaging episode of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time narrated by Alan Bennett - if Bennett were more profoundly steeped in Marx and politically engaged by the revolutionary potential of the medium of radio - and you have something of their allure." - Stuart Jeffries, Financial Times "This collection shows a lighter - though entirely characteristic - side to this most influential of 20th-century thinkers." - Jonathan Gibbs, The Independent "Walter Benjamin, one of the first theorists to ponder the social impact of mass media [...] was equally entranced by the way thin air mysteriously transmits radio waves. In 1927, five years before he exiled himself from Germany in advance of the Nazi putsch, Benjamin began a series of experimental broadcasts on this new medium." - Peter Conrad, Observer Read more...

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