Apaguem os rastros: Walter Benjamin, arquitetura, história e literatura

Caio Yurgel

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2012v24p140

Without a trace: Walter Benjamin, architecture, history and literature

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Caio Yurgel Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7721-4769

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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2012v24p140

Keywords:

Walter Benjamin. Architecture. History. Literature

Abstract

The article aims at recreating a critical itinerary concerning what one could call Estética do vestígio in the work of Walter Benjamin. By interweaving architecture (Le Corbusier, Scheerbart, Loos), history (Adorno, Giedion), and literature (Kafka, Brecht), it seeks to demonstrate the ideological transition from trace to transparence – seeks to entwine past and present, withdrawal and distraction, and thus discuss both the literary thing and the construction of identities in the contemporary world.

Author Biography

Caio Yurgel, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Master's student in Linguistics and Letters at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.

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BENJAMIN, Walter. 1994. The correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940. Chicago: The U of Chicago P.

FRAMPTON, Kenneth. 2003. História crítica da arquitetura moderna. São Paulo: Martins Fontes.

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2012-12-30

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Yurgel, Caio. “Without a Trace: Walter Benjamin, Architecture, History and Literature”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 24, Dec. 2012, pp. 140-5, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2012v24p140.

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