Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (Berlinskoye Detstvo)

Walter Benjamin delves into childhood memories. Touching sketches about growing up at the turn of the century from the famous German philosopher.
In 1990, Walter Benjamin, a boy from a Jewish family, was only 8 years old. As life goes on, childhood memories fade and fade. But Benjamin was able to peer into the void of time and assemble wonderful, tender sketches of dear years from fragments of color, smells, tones, and moods.
Memories of ice skating, collections of postcards, the smell of a Christmas tree, and the rustle of books that surrounded him since childhood—Walter Benjamin lovingly describes all these tiny fragments of childhood, enveloping the reader in the magic of his whimsical, poetic metaphors.