Vicente Valero

Experiencia y pobreza

INFORMATION

(According to the editorial) Two decisive years in the life of Walter Benjamin, 1932 and 1933, were linked in a very special way, and it might even seem somewhat surprisingly, to the island of Ibiza. During those two years, the Berlin writer's life and literary career was profoundly affected by a personal crisis. In addition to his precarious economic situation and his lack of professional expectations, another crisis soon broke out, that of his own country, with the collapse of the economy and the rise of Nazism to power. Benjamin was forced to leave Germany. He never came back. In general, this Ibizan page of his career is usually passed, however, quite quickly, despite the fact that in it he left some of his most lucid texts written and pointed out motives and situations that would become priority topics for his reflection a few years later. The main object of this magnificent book is to investigate the motives that led him to Ibiza and to relate his days on the island.