Walter Benjamin's Grave

by Michael Taussig

Book Overview

In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology's--and indeed today's--most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin's grave in Port Bou. The result is "Walter Benjamin's Grave," a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226790037
• ISBN13: 9780226790039
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"