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| '''''Passagenwerk''''' or ''[[Arcades Project]]'' is [[Walter Benjamin]]'s final, [[unfinished work]], an enormous collection of [[note]]s on the city life of [[Nineteenth century Paris|Paris in the 19th century]], especially concerned with the roofed outdoor "[[Arcade (architecture)|arcade]]s" which created the city's distinctive street life and culture of [[flâneur|''flânerie'']]. Written between [[1927]] and [[1940]], it has been posthumously edited and published in many languages in its unfinished form. | '''''Passagenwerk''''' or ''[[Arcades Project]]'' is [[Walter Benjamin]]'s final, [[unfinished work]], an enormous collection of [[note]]s on the city life of [[Nineteenth century Paris|Paris in the 19th century]], especially concerned with the roofed outdoor "[[Arcade (architecture)|arcade]]s" which created the city's distinctive street life and culture of [[flâneur|''flânerie'']]. Written between [[1927]] and [[1940]], it has been posthumously edited and published in many languages in its unfinished form. | ||
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| == Publication history == | == Publication history == | ||
| The notes and manuscripts for the '''''Arcades Project''''' and much of Benjamin's correspondence had been entrusted to his friend [[Georges Bataille]] before Benjamin left Paris. Bataille saw to it that it was hidden in a closed archive at the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]], where it was finally discovered. The full text of Benjamin's unfinished ''magnum opus'' (as far as it could be reconstructed; of course this is in many ways a multi-layered [[palimpsest]] and some of the allusions in the parts that were "notebook material" are highly elliptic) was printed in the 1980s after years of difficult editorial work: it was hailed as one of the milestones of 20th century literary criticism and theory (and surrounded by controversy over the methods of the editor) and as a forerunner of [[postmodernism]]. | The notes and manuscripts for the '''''Arcades Project''''' and much of Benjamin's correspondence had been entrusted to his friend [[Georges Bataille]] before Benjamin left Paris. Bataille saw to it that it was hidden in a closed archive at the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]], where it was finally discovered. The full text of Benjamin's unfinished ''magnum opus'' (as far as it could be reconstructed; of course this is in many ways a multi-layered [[palimpsest]] and some of the allusions in the parts that were "notebook material" are highly elliptic) was printed in the 1980s after years of difficult editorial work: it was hailed as one of the milestones of 20th century literary criticism and theory (and surrounded by controversy over the methods of the editor) and as a forerunner of [[postmodernism]]. | ||
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Passagenwerk or Arcades Project is Walter Benjamin's final, unfinished work, an enormous collection of notes on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, especially concerned with the roofed outdoor "arcades" which created the city's distinctive street life and culture of flânerie. Written between 1927 and 1940, it has been posthumously edited and published in many languages in its unfinished form.
Publication history
The notes and manuscripts for the Arcades Project and much of Benjamin's correspondence had been entrusted to his friend Georges Bataille before Benjamin left Paris. Bataille saw to it that it was hidden in a closed archive at the Bibliothèque Nationale, where it was finally discovered. The full text of Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus (as far as it could be reconstructed; of course this is in many ways a multi-layered palimpsest and some of the allusions in the parts that were "notebook material" are highly elliptic) was printed in the 1980s after years of difficult editorial work: it was hailed as one of the milestones of 20th century literary criticism and theory (and surrounded by controversy over the methods of the editor) and as a forerunner of postmodernism.
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