Moscow Diary

"The German literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, who died in 1940, was one of Europe's grandest thinkers. This diary covers only two months in the winter of 1926-1927, but it feels like a lifetime. His meticulous, almost macabre attention to detail gives his perceptions a kind of scientific brilliance, whether he is describing the streets of the city, a curious shop sign, the sanatorium where his friend Asja Lacis is a patient, the wash table in his hotel room, or the ragged beds that stand at every street corner in `the open air sick bay called Moscow'. The book is a supreme example of the kind of mental equipment any traveller would like to take with him, to any place."Smith, Gary is the author of 'Moscow Diary' with ISBN 9780674587441 and ISBN 0674587448.