John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK

...mixes apparently autobiographical fiction and social history with astute critical reworking of many of Walter Benjamin's most important ideas.

• Preface \Acknowledgements \ List of Illustrations \ A Note Left Behind \ 1. The Gate \2. The House \ 3. Two Films Are Briefly Projected \ 4. The Front Room \ 5.Still the Front Room \ 6. The Garden in the Evening \ 7. Still the Garden inthe Evening \ 8. The Garden, Now Frozen, At Night \ 9. Still the Frosted GardenAt Night \ 10. The Coronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 11. Still theCoronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 12. Removal \ 13. The Threshold ofthe Hotel \ Post-face \ Notes \ Index

John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK

...mixes apparently autobiographical fiction and social history with astute critical reworking of many of Walter Benjamin's most important ideas.

• Preface \Acknowledgements \ List of Illustrations \ A Note Left Behind \ 1. The Gate \2. The House \ 3. Two Films Are Briefly Projected \ 4. The Front Room \ 5.Still the Front Room \ 6. The Garden in the Evening \ 7. Still the Garden inthe Evening \ 8. The Garden, Now Frozen, At Night \ 9. Still the Frosted GardenAt Night \ 10. The Coronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 11. Still theCoronation and the Beautiful Pouring Rain \ 12. Removal \ 13. The Threshold ofthe Hotel \ Post-face \ Notes \ Index