Walter Benjamin

Thom Vernon's Reading List, 2000-2010

I am one of those jerks who survey other people's bookshelves. I do my best to get sight of a pattern or a trail: Books for Dummies, Nietzsche, the Bible. I spy for social comfort and to discover common ground. Books hold our private and public intellectual bodies. They are the infrastructure of our lives.

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Open Book on the philosophy of Saudade

Pedaller/Peddler in and of Places

By Nitin Deckha

Open Book Toronto

May 21 3560

Anik See's Saudade (Coach House Books) reminds me of the work of another writer of place: the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin. In one of his posthumous anthologies of writings, Illuminations, Benjamin muses about the differences of history and memory, and elaborates his notion of the flaneur.

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