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Writing to Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) in 1935, Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) stated of The Arcades Project, ‘That I can write it only in Paris, from the first word to the last, is entirely clear to me now, despite the great mass of preliminary work supporting it. Naturally, it can first be written only in German’ (Benjamin 2002, p. 52). Benjamin indicates here three fundamental features of his enormously influential study of nineteenth-century Paris, titled Das Passagen-Werk in German, which he worked on intermittently from the late 1920s until his death in 1940.
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Moore, B. (2016). Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project . In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_4
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