{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-reimagined-a-graphic-translation-of-poetry-prose-aphorisms-and-dreams-by-frances-cannon","title":"Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams \/ by Frances Cannon","description":"\u003cp\u003eMIT Press, 2019. Hardcover. As New. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments. Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts -- a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments.,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWalter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban fl neur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin Reimagined\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts-a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCannon has not created a guide to Benjamin's greatest ideas-this is not an illustrated Walter Benjamin cheat sheet-but rather a beautifully rendered work of graphic literature. Cannon doesn't plod through thickets of minutiae; she strolls-a fl neuse herself-using Benjamin's words and her own drawings to construct a creative topography of Benjamin's writing. Phrases from \"Unpacking My Library,\" for example, are accompanied by images of flying papers, stray books, stacked books-books \"not yet touched by the mild boredom of order\"-and a bearded mage. Cannon takes the reader through different periods of Benjamin's writing- \"Artifacts of Youth,\" nostalgic musings on his childhood; \"Fragments of a Critical Eye,\" early writings, political observations, and cultural criticism; \"Athenaeum of Imagination,\" meditations on philosophy and psychology; \"A Stroll through the Arcades,\" Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus; and \"A Collection of Dreams and Stories,\" experimental and fantastical writings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith drawings and text, Cannon offers a phantasmagorical tribute to Benjamin's wandering eye.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46437343461542,"sku":"","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/walter.webp?v=1750190727","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-reimagined-a-graphic-translation-of-poetry-prose-aphorisms-and-dreams-by-frances-cannon","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}