Two Sabbath Stories in Walter Benjamin’s Kafka Essay: Wishing on a Constellation of Three Stars

This essay examines the two stories about or related to the Sabbath which Walter Benjamin included in his essay commemorating the tenth anniversary of Kafka’s death. Both are pastiches of Hasidic stories, apparently written by Benjamin himself. The first is based on a legend about a princess...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freddie Rokem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2022-08-01
Series:Itinera
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/18557