WALTER BENJAMIN. THE PEARL DIVER

An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time Walter Benjamin (18921940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Esteemed for his literary acumen and capacious imagination, he developed a unique style of criticismhis friend Hannah Arendt called it pearl-divingthat sought out fragments of redemption in the ruins of bourgeois civilization.