e Walter eThis edition copyright © Polity Press, 1999. First published in Germany as Briefwechse! 1928-1940 by Suhrkamp Verlag, © 1994. First published in 1999 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd. This book is published with the assistance of Inter Nationes. Editorial office. Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Marketing and production: Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF, UK All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. 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(MARINA DI MASSA), 3.9.1932 9 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [NO INDICATION OF LOCATION] 10.11.1932 10 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO BERLIN 1.12.1932 11 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO BERLIN 14.1.1933 ; 12_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 29.1.1934 13 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BERLIN Material com direitos autorais16 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 18.3.1934 17 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BERLIN 5.4.1934 Oo 18 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 9.4.1934 19 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN FRANKFURT AM., 13.4.1934 20_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BROOKLYN (WEST DRAYTON), 21.4.1934 21_ BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 28.4.1934 22 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 24.5.1934 NIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 11.1934 24_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SAN REMO, 30.11.1934 25 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD, 5.12.1934 26_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BERLIN 16.12.1934 27 _WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BERLIN 17.12.1934 oO / / 28 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SAN REMO 7.1.1935 29 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO MONACO- CONDAMINE [EARLY APRIL 1935] Material com direitos autorais30 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 1.5.1935 : 31_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD, 20.5.1935 ; 32 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 31.5.1935 33_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 5.6.1935 34_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD. 8.6.1935 35 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 10.6.1935 36_ BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 19.6.1935 37. BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 39 WIESENGRUND. DORNO AND GRETEL KARPLUS TO BENJAMIN HORNBERG, 2-4 AND 5.8.1935 | 40_ BENJAMIN TO GRETEL KARPLUS AND WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [PARIS, 16.8.1935] 41 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 27.12.1935 42 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [FRANKFURT A.M.,] 29.12.1935 43 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [PARIS,] 3.1.1936 OO 44_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN LONDON 29.1.1936 45 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 46_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 27.2.1936 ; Material com direitos autorais47_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN LONDON 18.3.1936 48 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND- ADORNO [PARIS, SUBSEQUENT TO 1 136) 49 WIESENGRUND- ADORNO_ TO BENJAMIN OXFORD. 28.5.1936 50 _WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 2.6.1936 a: BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. er WIESENGRUND- ADORNO TO. BENJAMIN OXFORD 16.6.1936 53_ BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 20.6.1936 54 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND- ADORNO PARIS 3 936° 55 WIESENGRUND- AADORNO TO BENJAMIN BERLIN 5¢ 56_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND- ADORNO SAN REMO, 59 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 19.10.1936 60_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 26.10.1936 So 61 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 5.11.1936 62_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 71119386002 : 63_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 28.11.1936 Material com direitos autorais64_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SAN REMO 2.121936 / / 65_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 2911937 — 66_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD. 17.2.1937 67_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 6 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [PARIS.] 6 GRETEL KARPLUS. AND WIESENGRUND-, ADORNO TO 70_ BENJAMIN TO WIESEN ;RUND-ADORNO [PARIS,] | 13.4.1937 — 74_WIE! ENGRUND- ADORNO TO BENJAMIN FRANKFURT 6 ‘WIESENGRUND- -ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD, 4.5.1937 77_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 95.1937, 7 1 ts 78 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD 12.5.1937 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN OXFORD. 13.5.1937 80_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [PARIS.] 17.5.1937 Material com direitos autorais841 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS. 82_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN NEW YORK, 17.6.1937 83_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN ABOARD THE ‘NORMANDIE”, 2.7.1937 84_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SAN REMO. 10.7.1937 | / 7 85_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO [SAN REMO,. AROUND THE MIDDLE OF JULY 1937] 86_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SAN REMO. 21,8.1937 ; 87_ THEODOR AND GRETEL WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN LONDON, 13.9.1937 88_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN LONDON 22.9.1937 89_BENJAMIN TO THEODOR AND GRETEL WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARI: 90 BENJAMIN TO THEODOR AND GRETEL WIESENGRUND-ADORNO BOULOGNE SUR SEINE 2.10.1937 91 WIESENGRUND- ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [LONDON,} 92 ENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-; ADORNO | BOULOGNE SUR SEINE, 2.11.1937 93 BENJAMIN TO THEODOR AND GRETEL WIESENGRUND-, -ADORNO BOULOGNE SUR SEINE 17.11.1937 94 WIESENGRUND- -ADORNO To BENJAMIN [LONDON a 27.11.1937 95 WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [LONDON, ] 41.12.1937 12. 1937 96_BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO BOULOGNE SUR SEINE, 4.12.1937 Material com direitos autorais97_WIESENGRUND-ADORNO TO BENJAMIN {LONDON,] 12.1938 / / 98 BENJAMIN TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO PARIS 11.2.1938 99 THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [NEW YORK,] 7.3.1938 100 BENJAMIN TO THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO PARIS, 27.3.1938 101 ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [NEW YORK; ]8.4.1938 102_BENJAMIN TO THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO 105 BENJAMIN TO THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO PARIS, 19.6.1938 106 THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO TO BENJAMIN BAR HARBOR, MAINE, 2.8.1938 107_ THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO- TO. BENJAMIN 108 ‘BENJAMIN TO THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO SKOVSBOSTRAND, 28.8.1938 109. BENJAMIN TO ADORNO SKOVSBOSTRAND 110. “ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [NEW YORK,] 10.11.1938 141 BENJAMIN TO ADORNO PARIS, 9.12.1938 4112 ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [NEW YORK,] 1.2.1939 443 BENJAMIN TO ADORNO PARIS, 23.2.1939 414 THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO TO BENJAMIN [NEW YORK,] 15.7.1939 115 BENJAMIN TO THEODOR W. AND GRETEL ADORNO PARIS. 6.8.1939 a 116 GRETEL AND THEODOR W. ADORNO TO BENJAMIN Material com direitos autoraisNEW YORK,] 24.11.1939 _ / 117 ADORNO ENJAMIN [NEW YORK,] 29.2.1940 118 BENJAMIN TO ADORNO PARIS, 7.5.1940 119 ADORNO TO BENJAMIN NEW YORK, 1 120 BENJAMIN TO ADOR i 121 BENJAMIN TO HENNY GURLAND [AND ADORNO?] [PORT BOU, 25.9.1940] Editor's Afterword by Henri Lonitz Textual Notes and Source References. Bibliographical Index Name Index Material com direitos autoraisAbbreviations oT Principal works referred to in the annotations of the main text and repeated in the Textual Notes and Source References at the end of the book are abbreviated as follows: GS [1-20]: Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, edited by Rolf Tiedemann with the assistance of Gretel Adorno, Susan Buck-Morss and Klaus Schultz. 20 volumes. Frankfurt a.M. 1970-86. GS [I-VIl]: Walter Benjamin, Gesammeilte Schriften, edited by Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhauser with the assistance of Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem. 7 volumes. Frankfurt a.M. 1972-89 Adorno, Uber Walter Benjamin: Theodor W. Adorno, Uber Walter Benjamin. Aufsatze. Artikel. Briefe, annotated by Rolf Tiedemann (revised and expanded edition). Frankfurt a.M. 1990. Briefwechsel Adorno/Krenek: Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Krenek, Briefwechsel, edited by Wolfgang Rogge. Frankfurt a.M. 1974. Briefwechsel Adorno/Sohn-Rethel: Theodor W. Adorno and Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Briefwechsel 1936-1969, edited by Christoph Gédde. Munchen 1991 (Dialektische Studien) Briefe: Walter Benjamin, Briefe, edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno. 2 volumes. 2nd. ed. Frankfurt a.M. 1978. Briefwechsel Scholem: Walter Benjamin—Gerhsom Scholem, Briefwechsel 1933— 1940, edited by Gershom Scholem. Frankfurt a.M. 1980. Benjamin—-Katalog: Walter Benjamin 1892-1940. Eine Ausstellung des Theodor W. Adorno Archivs Frankfurt aM. in Verbindung mit dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach am Neckar. Bearbeitet von Rolf Tiedemann, Christoph Godde und Henri Lonitz. Marbacher Magazin Nr. 55.3. Marbach a.N. 1991