Name: Escritos Sobre Kafka (in Spanish)
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Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9788419008909

portada Escritos Sobre Kafka (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Benjamin

Publisher

Abada Editores

Year

2024

Language

Spanish

Pages

148

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

12 x 16.5 cm

Weight

0.15

ISBN13

9788419008909

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Escritos Sobre Kafka (in Spanish)

Walter Benjamin (Author) · Abada Editores · Paperback

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Synopsis "Escritos Sobre Kafka (in Spanish)"

Cuatro fueron los textos que Walter Benjamin consagró a la obra de Franz Kafka. Su lectura e interpretación de la prosa del escritor checo han generado un torrente de comentarios y glosas. Y hoy, a los cien años de la muerte de Kafka, resultan indispensables. Si su escritura sigue siendo una necesidad, un enigma y un reto, la elegante y rigurosa lectura que acomete Benjamin, la interpretación que elabora en diálogo con intelectuales de la talla de Adorno, Scholem o Brecht, hace del legado kafkiano un diagnóstico eficaz, que atraviesa épocas. No sólo los grandes argumentos que ocuparon a Kafka están presentes en estos textos; casi todos los temas que interesaron a Benjamin, todos los grandes motivos que despuntan en su obra, se alojan en estas imprescindibles páginas requeridas por la obra de Kafka: el derecho y la justicia, la historia, el lenguaje, el mito, el arte, la literatura, la religión, la ciudad, la culpa, la experiencia, la sociedad, la herencia o la técnica. Benjamin muestra en estas brillantes páginas la potencia de la literatura. Y el compromiso de la crítica, que se convierte aquí en un ejercicio de responsabilidad. En arte.

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin was a prominent philosopher, literary critic, and art and history theorist born in Berlin, Germany. His work and critical thinking have had a profound influence on 20th century cultural studies.
Benjamin was born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. From an early age, he showed an interest in literature, music, and art.
In the 1920s, after serving in the German army during World War I, he joined the Frankfurt School, a circle of German intellectuals and social critics interested in transforming Marxist ideas. There, he met other thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who were major influences on his work and worldview.
Throughout his life, Benjamin was also deeply interested in politics and social issues. During the years of the Weimar Republic, he actively participated in the cultural and literary field. However, the rise of Nazism to power in 1933 forced him to leave Germany. He first went into exile in Paris and after the French occupation, Benjamin tried to escape to Spain to embark towards the United States, but was detained at the French-Spanish border. Faced with the imminent threat of being handed over to the German authorities, the author decided to end his life.

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