diff --git a/the arcades project.md b/the arcades project.md index fa4695b71..7555f7bb3 100644 --- a/the arcades project.md +++ b/the arcades project.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ - maybe a [[scrapbook]]. maybe a [[draft]]. maybe a [[collection of notes]]. - #push [[walter benjamin]] contemporaries - quotes from: [[marcel proust]] [[paul valéry]] [[louis aragon]] [[andré breton]] [[georg simmel]] [[ernst bloch]] [[siegfried kracauer]] [[theodor adorno]] + - - in the words of the translator of our edition, the items on display ([[drafts]], [[excerpts]]) give rise to "[[a world of secret affinities]]". - [[benjamin]] abandoned the work in [[1940]] as he had to flee [[paris]]. - [[benjamin]] wrote to [[gershom scholem]] on [[1934]] and said that "not a syllable of the actual text of the [[passagenarbeit]] exists yet". So perhaps what we've got is essentially only [[notes]] for a work that was never written.