The scrap merchant supreme

Peter Conrad in Guardian
Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs
Edited by Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz and Erdmut Wizisla; translated by Esther Leslie
‘These fragments I have shored against my ruin,’ says a nameless voice in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. The fragments are a collage of quotations, jumbled mementos of a lost world. For [...]