6 Benjamin and Aragon: Le Paysan de Berlin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Urban Spleen and the Terror of Paris in Baudelaire and Rilke 23
6. 2 Kafka’s Betrachtung in the Force Field of Photography and Film 52
7. 3 Benn in Occupied Brussels: The Rönne Novellas 84
8. 4 Photography and Emblem in Kracauer and Benjamin’s Street Texts 118
9. 5 Double Exposure Berlin: Photomontage and Narrative in Höch and Keun 155
10. 6 Benjamin and Aragon: Le Paysan de Berlin 181
11. 7 War and Metropolis in Jünger 218
12. 8 Musil’s Posthumous Modernism 244
13. Coda. Diving into the Wreck: Adorno’s Minima Moralia 270
14. Notes 299
15. Index 337