The Origin of German Tragic Drama

　　Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered to be one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

　　"Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century." --George Steiner

作者簡介

　　Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Archive and The Arcades Project.