Walter Benjamin - Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem Is Celebrated As The Twentieth Century''s Most Profound Student Of The Jewish Mystical Tradition; Walter Benjamin, As A Master Thinker Whose Extraordinary Essays Mix The Revolutionary, The Revelatory, And The Esoteric. Scholem Was A Precocious Teenager When He Met Benjamin, Who Became His Close Friend And Intellectual Mentor. His Account Of That Relationshipwhich Was To Remain Crucial For Both Menis Both A Celebration Of His Friend''s Spellbinding Genius And A Lament For The Personal And Intellectual Self-destructiveness That Culminated In Benjamin''s Suicide In Once Prickly And Heartbroken, Argumentative And Loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story Of A Friendship Is An Absorbing Memoir With The Complication Of Character And Motive Of A Novel.