Aragon’s 1926 work inspired Benjamin’s Passagen project as a modern mythology

Evidence

Louis Aragon must have seemed to Benjamin to be the positive, modern counterpart to Klages’s prophecies of downfall. In his book of 1926, Le Paysan de Paris, Aragon expressly demanded the creation of a modern mythology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 822

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The surrealists shaped Benjamin’s sense of modern literature and his lifelong Passagen-Werk project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 362; Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk notes pursued contradictory research intentions simultaneously. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 799; Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris profoundly moved Benjamin and shaped the Passagen work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 822 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk was structured as an awakening from the collective dream-world into history #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 858