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"A moving, impressively informed novel based on the life of one of the century's most austere, provocative, and tragic intellectuals, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Parini, a poet, critic, and novelist, has created not so much a fictional biography of Benjamin as a meditation on the experience of exile and the difficult emergence of modern thought....[R]esonant, convincing, and deeply sad.Parini, Jay is the author of 'Benjamin's Crossing A Novel' with ISBN 9780805058246 and ISBN 0805058249.
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