Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship
"This book chronicles the intimate friendship of Gershom Scholem, one of the foremost Jewish scholars of our age, and Walter Benjamin, regarded by many as its greatest philosopher-critic. They first met in Berlin in 1915, when Benjamin was twenty-three and Scholem seventeen. They pursued their intense discussions of Judaism, religion, philosophy and literature at every opportunity; when they were apart their exchange went on in letters, many of them reproduced here. ... Gershom Scholem's memoir of Benjamin is the important sustained biographical record so far available. His account of Benjamin's life and intellectual development is an invaluable aid to the understanding and appreciation of his work ..."--Dust jacket front flap
Print Book, English, 1982, ©1981
Faber and Faber, London, 1982, ©1981