/lit/ - Literature

I read pic related a few weeks ago. Mostly focused on Benjamin but some of his criticisms of Benjamin were pretty revealing.
He believed that Benjamin was essentially a religious mystic and his attempts to formulate his thoughts into Marxist dialectic created something neither fish nor fowl. Scholem didn’t care for the Marxism, Brecht didn’t care for the mysticism
Also strongly suggests that Benjamin considered suicide long before the Nazis took power and invaded France. The stress of just earning a living as an expatriate in Paris alone was enough to drive him to the brink.
The Spanish not letting him across the border when the Nazis were bulldozing France was just the final straw that broke the camels back.