![]() ![]() by Jeanne Willette Modern, Modern Aesthetics, Modern Art Criticism, Modern Culture. Keeping or passing on to another reader for their own library. The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin, Part Two. So hopefully this exercise will help determine if a book is worth Suffice to say most of the books are on architecture and related The series was inspired by Walter Benjamins essay entitled Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting (1968), in which Benjamin espouses on the. ![]() When I called my parents to let them know my trip had concluded safely, my mother. I recently returned to tiny Gambier from a week-long sojourn in New York City. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. ![]() Books willīe labeled by subject, publication date, author and other keywords, but Last night, in the midst of moving books all over my house, I took the opportunity to revisit Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting. Some words on its value (or lack thereof), and a star rating. This is the chronicle of an accidental book collector, one essay per book. So at the rate of roughly one book per day I'll be highlighting one bookįrom my library with a photograph, a description of where I got it, Read all stories published by Unpacking My Library in May of 2021. I have a lot of books (over 1,200 cataloged on LibraryThing) but not enough room for them, so to help me determine what books to keep and what books to give away ( or sell) I'm going through my books one by one to try to determine the value each holds for me. Unpacking my library: a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin: Architects and their books: Stan Allen: Henry N. La lettura è interrotta da una successione di figure enigmatiche. Read more about the Unpacking My Library blog below.Īlthough the title of this blog is taken from Walter Benjamin's well-known essay from Illuminations, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting" (PDF link), my goal is personal rather than intellectual. The latest post from the new blog will show up in the left column here. It's basically a weeding out of books from my ever-growing library by writing briefly about one of them every day. Last week I started a new blog, titled Unpacking My Library. Walter Benjamin, 'Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting' (i93i) In the image of its legendary owner, the poet, aesthete, and dandy extraordinaire Robert de Montesquiou, the posthumous sale of his library in April 1923 and April 1924 at the Hôtel Drouot became a notorious literary and society hap pening. ![]()
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