Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris opened Benjamin’s Passagenwerk and moved him physically

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. Benjamin mentioned, in a letter to Adorno of May 1935, that he had read the book at the start of his work on the Passagen, and that he had `not been able to read more than two or three pages in bed each night, because the pounding of my heart became so strong that I had to put the book down’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 220

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris profoundly moved Benjamin and shaped the Passagen work #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 822