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''Benjamin's Crossing'' is a 1996 historical novel written by Jay Parini about the Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, and his escape over the Pyrenees from Nazi occupied France into Spain. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year in 1997.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/books/notable-books-of-the-year-1997.html〕 == Praise == * The New York Times "Parini's story is at once painstakingly researched and dramatically recounted. It locates Benjamin's mystifying traits in a vivid and believable psychology. And it has something important to tell us, not just about Benjamin but about the role of the intellectual in modern Western society." * The New Yorker "A brisk, moving novel containing a parable without confining itself to a parable's two-dimensionality." * Booklist: "Parini's vital and affecting vision of Benjamin will do much to preserve Benjamin's precious legacy." * Publishers Weekly "In a formidable display of intellectual and imaginative sympathy, Parini novelizes the life and death of Walter Benjamin, one of the major literary and cultural critics of the twentieth century." * The Philadelphia Inquirer "Parini's exquisite achievement-and exquisite is exactly the word for his poet's fluid prose-is that the social criticism he channels through Walter Benjamin in this novel is as troubling today as then." * Kirkus Reviews "A moving, impressively informed novel based on the life of one of the century's most austere, provocative, and tragic intellectuals, Walter Benjamin." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin's Crossing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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