The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781844673483
ISBN10: 1844673480
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European | General
- Literary Criticism | European | German
- Social Science | General

About the Author
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.

George Steiner, author of dozens of books (The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Heidegger, In Bluebeard's Castle, My Unwritten Books, George Steiner at the New Yorker), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.