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Benjamin's Crossing
- ナレーター： Mark Bramhall, Edoardo Ballerini, Natasha Soudek, Kathleen Gati, Senn Annis
- 再生時間： 12 時間 40 分
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Benjamin's Crossing
批評家のレビュー
“A piercing, magnificent novel.” (Amos Oz)
"Painstakingly researched and dramatically recounted.... [Benjamin’s Crossing] has something important to tell us.” (The New York Times Book Review)
"Jay Parini has written an exciting ‘adventure story,’ part Chaplin, part Kafka, and wholly emblematic of our dark age.” (Gore Vidal)
あらすじ・解説
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days - adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.
It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin - the German-Jewish critic and philosopher - has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees into Spain, where they may (with luck) make their way to freedom in Portugal or South America.
Beloved biographical novelist Jay Parini's thrilling tale of escape is beautifully interwoven with vignettes of Benjamin's complex, cosmopolitan past: his privileged childhood in Berlin, his years with the German Youth Movement, his university days. His close friendship with Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, and many other well-known artists and intellectuals who were part of Benjamin's intimate circle between the two world wars. Part tragedy, part dark comedy, this sharply realized historical novel tells one of the great and most moving peripheral stories of the Holocaust.