Baroque Sherlock: Benjamin’s friendship between «criminal and detective» in its fore- and afterlife

The starting point of this paper is a statement that Benjamin makes in a group of notes he writes for his project of a detective novel (1933). Benjamin writes here that «criminal and detective could be so friends [so befreundet sein] as Sherlock Holmes and Watson». We’ll try to understand the meani...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alice Barale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2017-12-01
Series:Aisthesis
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/942