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Benjamin's Crossing
By Jay Parini
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By Jay Parini
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The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last daysadapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.
It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjaminthe German-Jewish critic and philosopherhas been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by ch...
It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjaminthe German-Jewish critic and philosopherhas been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by ch...