Montserrat Caballe “Miserere” from Il Trovatore Act 4

Walter Benjamin: 1940 SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE

Paris, 23 March 1940
Dear Monsieur Horkheimer,
It is over a year since I sent you my last résumé of French literature. Unfortunately it is not in literary novelties that the past season has proved most fertile. The noxious seed that has sprouted here obscures the blossoming plant of belles-lettres with a sinister foliage. But I [...]