"Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.”
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
A literary critic, philosopher, translator and sociologist, cultural critic; he wrote on Goethe, Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire, and he was influenced by Bertolt Brecht. His essays and works have been hugely influential in not just how people think about modern culture and art, but also how art is produced and why.
Benjamin on collecting
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