Who Killed Walter Benjamin? (2007)
3 décembre 2007, 20:38, par Tlön
Who Killed Walter Benjamin?, David Mauas, 2007 [Site officiel]
David Mauas recently completed the conspiracy theory-laden Who Killed Walter Benjamin? The film heavily critiques the largely accepted idea that Benjamin committed suicide and, instead, theorizes that he was assasinated by agents working for Stalinist Russia.
– WHITSON, Roger (2007). «Who Killed Cultural Studies?», Long Sunday, 27 août. [En ligne]
In the meantime we were joined by an elderly gentleman, a younger female and her son. The gentleman, a German university professor named Walter Benjamin, was on the point of having a heart attack. The strain of mountain climbing on an extremely hot September day, together with the anxious endeavour to escape German arrest far too much for him. As we were at a resting place, we ran in all direction in search of some water to help the sick man…
– BIRMAN, Carina (2007). The Narrow Foothold, Hearing Eye. [Site officiel]
[Lisa] Fittko’s account of what followed is now a justifiably famous element of the Walter Benjamin cult. Carina Birman’s personal story is not, but it includes the most recent of many last words about Benjamin’s death, a death on which, for his admirers, so much seems to hang that it, too, seems suspended: symbolic to the point of unreality, an enactment more than an event, like the death of the Christian messiah and the disappearance of the ‘risen’ body, for so long a matter of ardent conjecture.
– HARDING, Jeremy (2007). «Through The Trapdoor», London Review of Books, 19 juillet. [En ligne]
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