Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin\'s lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author\'s own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing.
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Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin\'s lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author\'s own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing
