The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is unique among Benjamin's writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with his motives and conscience. Perhaps the primary reason for his trip was his affection for Asja Lacis, a Latvian Bolshevik whom he had first met in Capri in 1924 and who would remain an important intellectual and erotic influence on him throughout the twenties and thirties. Asja Lacis resided in Moscow, eking out a living as a journalist, and Benjamin's diary is, on one level, the account of his masochistic love affair with this elusive--and rather unsympathetic--object of desire. On another level, it is the story of a failed romance with the Russian Revolution; for Benjamin had journeyed to Russia not only to inform himself firsthand about Soviet society, but also to arrive at an eventual decision about joining the Communist Party. Benjamin's diary paints the dilemma of a writer seduced by the promises of the Revolution yet unwilling to blinker himself to its human and institutional failings. "Moscow Diary" is more than a record of ideological ambivalence; its literary value is considerable. Benjamin is one of the great twentieth-century physiognomists of the city, and his portrait of hibernal Moscow stands beside his brilliant evocations of Berlin, Naples, Marseilles, and Paris. Students of this particularly interesting period will find Benjamin's eyewitness account of Moscow extraordinarily illuminating.
多年以来,我都回避着那个迷宫般的街区。直到有一天,我所钟爱的人,搬到了那里。这个街区突然明朗开阔了起来,仿佛那人的窗口有一盏常明灯,灯光将整个街区理清素净。-------------本雅明 他带着憧憬和期盼横跨半个欧洲大陆奔往莫斯科,不,可能什么也没带,只是被从心中发出...
评分“每当看到女人在爱情前迸发的巨大天赋和力量,总令男人感到自卑”——《红项圈》,即使天生浪漫的法国男人,也对爱在男女基因中分布的巨大差异而无奈,然而,男人真的没有女人那样会爱懂爱吗?难道男人就真的认为事业,工作,远比爱情更重要吗?难道爱情真的只是男人生命中的...
评分asja lacis,是那个让本雅明离开莫斯科的时候黯然垂泪的女人。 本雅明在西班牙边境小镇自杀,而且死后就被葬在改地。在一本旧的从蓝色变成黑色,但是书皮依然硬朗的可以当凶器的书里,我见过本雅明的墓碑。那个下午,在有阳光的图书馆,我却突然觉得有点寒冷,似乎有风...
评分译者潘小松在序言里说,我只管翻译,本雅明的思想和哲学是我不太明白的,只好留给别人解释。他好像并不喜欢本雅明,没有美化他的欲望,也许因此译得不错,没有花架式。 莫斯科日记是一向自我意识太强的本雅明比较坦率的笔记。他当时迷恋阿斯雅,一个有点神经质和造作的拉脱维...
评分asja lacis,是那个让本雅明离开莫斯科的时候黯然垂泪的女人。 本雅明在西班牙边境小镇自杀,而且死后就被葬在改地。在一本旧的从蓝色变成黑色,但是书皮依然硬朗的可以当凶器的书里,我见过本雅明的墓碑。那个下午,在有阳光的图书馆,我却突然觉得有点寒冷,似乎有风...
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