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Collector, translator, champion of Kafka and Brecht, Walter Benjamin spent
the first decades of this century developing a lyrical, cabbalistic style of
literary criticism. Pimlico鈥檚 handsome paperback reprint of
Illuminations鈥攁 posthumous collection of essays on everything from the
nature of translation to the relationship between art and mechanical
reproduction鈥攊s the latest word in retro intellectual fashion. Published
by Pimlico, 拢10, ISBN 0712665757.