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Whybrow, Nicholas Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin Bristol: Intellect Books, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-84150-114-X
In Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin, Nicolas Whybrow presents his readers with a recollection of the city of Berlin that is pieced together not out of an authoritative reading of the works of Brecht and Benjamin, bur rather from a very personal interlocution of specific passages that take shape through bricolage. Whybrow commences his narrative by questioning the apparent need on the part of certain Brecht researchers to encapsulate his writings into an oeuvre. He finds irony in the notion that such a strategy of scholarship not only threatens to render Brecht's work an inert object of fetishism, bur it also represents a kind of taking that belies a very different aesthetic and political practice from the kind of... |
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