Berlin childhood at the turn of the century. Benjamin V.

Walter Benjamin plunges into memories of childhood. Touching sketches about growing up at the turn of the century from the famous German philosopher.

In 1990, Walter Benmin, a boy from a Jewish family, was only 8 years old. Throughout life, the memories of childhood are thinned, erased. But Benjamin was able to look in the gap and collect from colored fragments, smells, halftones and moods wonderful, gentle sketches about the years dear to the heart.

Memories of skating, collection of postcards, the smell of a Christmas tree and rustling books that surrounded him since childhood - Walter Benjamin describes all these tiny childhood fragments, enveloping the reader with the magic of his bizarre, poetic metaphors.