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Benjamin's Crossing is a 1996 historical novel written by Jay Parini about the Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, and his escape over the Pyrenees from Nazi occupied France into Spain.
- Jay Parini
- 1996
Jan 1, 2001 · In Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini tracks Benjamin through his last, terrible months. The story opens with his desperate flight from Paris, on the heels of the Nazi invasion in 1940. It depicts his various, often tragicomic, attempts to flee France, culminating in his frantic escape over the Pyrenees into Spain.
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- Paperback
A fictionalized biography of Walter Benjamin, a 1930s Jewish German philosopher. The novel describes his theories on literature and mass culture, and his hard life in France, where he fled when the Nazis came to power.
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin’s last days–adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin–the German-Jewish critic and philosopher–has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves.
- Paperback
May 1, 1997 · From Library Journal. In this fascinating novel, novelist and critic Parini (Bay of Arrows, LJ 8/92), a professor at Middlebury, profiles the last few months in the life of critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, who escaped Paris just ahead of the Nazi invasion in 1940.
- Hardcover
- Jay Parini
Benjamin's Crossing Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jay Parini (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), 4.2 17 ratings. See all formats and editions. The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days - adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940.
Feb 9, 2021 · Beloved biographical novelist Jay Parini's thrilling tale of escape is beautifully interwoven with vignettes of Benjamin's complex, cosmopolitan past: his privileged childhood in...
