Walking in Berlin was a central model for Benjamin's Arcades Project and remains a classic of “walking literature” that ranges from Surrealist perambulation to Situationist “psychogeography.” This MIT Press edition includes the ...

Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s.

... Franz Hessel, Alter Mann: Romanfragment, ed. Bernd Witte (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1987), 55, and “Das Lederetui,” Die Dame, Sept. 1934, no. 22, 17–18. Additional indirect reference to Helen Grund's professional involvement in the ...

... Der gute Schriftsteller , ” p . 429 . tention to the lights and textures of modern environs , ANKE GLEBER The Secret Cities of Modernity: Topographies of Perception in Georges Rodenbach, Robert Walser, and Franz Hessel.

... Franz Hessel, Der Kramladen des Glücks. Berlin: Hofenberg, 2015, p. 48. Stam, François Truffaut and Friends, p. 48. Stam cites Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, “Franz Hessel ou a provocação da insolência,” in: Runa. Revista Portuguesa de ...

The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space.

... Franz Hessel ( 1880-1941 ) was a writer , as well as a translator of Proust , Sten- dhal , and Balzac . He produced the most important works of his career between 1924 and 1933 , when he worked for Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin . He ...