Author: Parini, Jay,
Title: Benjamin's Crossing.
Description: NY, Holt, (1997). VG PB. Novel based on factual record that imagines writer Benjamin's last year. Benjamin was among the most important intellectuals. of this century: a seminal critic & philosopher. Parini tracks Benjamin through his last, terrible months, his desperate flight from Paris in 1940 one step ahead of the Nazis, his various, often tragicomic attempts to flee France, culminating in his frantic escape over the Pyrenees into Spain.

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