Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams

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Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban flâneur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With Walter Benjamin Reimagined, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts¿a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments. Cannon has not created a guide to Benjamin's greatest ideas¿this is not an illustrated Walter Benjamin cheat sheet¿but rather a beautifully rendered work of graphic literature. Cannon doesn't plod through thickets of minutiae, she strolls¿a flâneuse herself¿using Benjamin's words and her own drawings to construct a creative topography of Benjamin's writing. Phrases from "Unpacking My Library, ¿ for example, are accompanied by images of flying papers, stray books, stacked books¿books "not yet touched by the mild boredom of order¿¿and a bearded mage. Cannon takes the reader through different periods of Benjamin's writing: "Artifacts of Youth, ¿ nostalgic musings on his childhood, "Fragments of a Critical Eye, ¿ early writings, political observations, and cultural criticism, "Athenaeum of Imagination, ¿ meditations on philosophy and psychology, "A Stroll through the Arcades, ¿ Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus, and "A Collection of Dreams and Stories, ¿ experimental and fantastical writings.