Benjamin Fondane: 3 books

Apparso per la prima volta nel 1938 e rimasto per molto tempo inosservato, il Falso Trattato di estetica di Benjamin Fondane fu ripubblicato in Francia nel 1998, a cento anni dalla nascita dell’Autore. Non senza subire l’influsso del pensiero di Lev Šestov (che Fondane aveva conosciuto a Parigi...

Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a...

Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet  of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before...