The Arcades Project - Operi

49. Proust, A la Recherche du temj}s perdu, vol. 1 (paris, 1954), pp. 644ff. [R.T.] In English
in Remembrance qfTlu'lIg:r Past, vol. I, p. 490 (Within a Budding Grove). See S11,l.
50. See note 12 in Convolute M.
51. On the fonner plan, see note 7 in Convolute S; and on the latter, see the fragments in
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sdmtliche Wer"e, vol. 29 (Frankfurt, 1978), pp. 202-206.
[R.T.]
52. Andre Breton, Nadja, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1960),
p. 152.
53. Proust, Remembrance q/ Things Past, vol. 1, p. 323. (ReJyerme: stuffy, close. 9a sent Ie
re'!forme: "It smells musty in here.")
54. BenjanllIl had planned to write on Ludwig Tieck's novella Der Blonde Eckbert, published
in 1812. [R.T.]
55. Perhaps Aragon, Paris Peasant, pp. 81-84.
56. '"DUs passage appears also in Benjamin's review "Krisis des Darwinisl11usT' published
in Die literarische Welt, April12, 1929 (GS, vol. 4, p. 534). [R.T.]
57. 'IAgnoszierung des Jetzt' in den Dingen." The term agnosziert) "acknowledged,"
shows up inJ5 1a,6.
58. Marx, CajJital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), pp. 83-84; vol. 3, trans. Ernest Untennann
(1909; rpt. New York: Intemational Publishers, 1967), pp. 25-210, esp. 173ff. See, in
this volume, Rolf Tiedemann, "Dialectics at a Standstill," note 15.
59. Louis Schneider, LeJ Maitres de l'ojJerettejinn,aise: OJJenbacll (paris, 1923). [R.T.]
60. Le Guide historique et anecdotique de Paris: L'Histoire de Paris, de ses 71LOnumenis) de Jes
nfuolutions) de ses cilibritis, de sa vie artistique, scientifique, mOl1daine, published under
the direction ofE. Cuervo-Marquez (paris, 1929). [R.T.]
61. TI1e memoirs of Prince Metternich, published in two volumes. [R.T.]
62. La Murtle de Partid (The Mute Girl of Portici), by Daniel Auber, was regarded as the
archetype of grand opera. See note 10 in Convolute B.
63. "Eager for new things.!)
64. Henri See, P,'anziisische WirtJdugtsgeschichte (French Economic History), voL 1 (jena,
1930). [R.T.]
"The Arcades of' Paris"
1. See note 2 in Convolute H.
2. Seitenhimmeln, possibly an error in transcription; in Q?,2, Belamin has Seidenhimmefn,
"silken skies." And in the third sentence of tlus passage, instead of Land) Q9,2
reads Band) "ribbon." See "Moonlit Nights on the Rue la Boetie;' in STili; voL 2,
pp. 107-108.
3. In German, List, which originally meant "knowledge" and refelTed to techniques of
hunting and war, to magical abilities and artistic skill.
4. Greek name for Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Leda who were transformed by Zeus
into the constellation Gemini. TIley had a cult in Lacedaemol1, where they were
symbolized by the dokana) two upright pieces of wood cormected by two crossbeams.
Presumably an allusion to Benjamin's collaboration with Franz Hessel.
'"The Ring of Satu .. n'
1. See GS, vol. 7, pp. 232-237. In English in Sw, vol. 2, pp. 563-567.
2. Charles-Fr311\ois Viel, De l'ImjJuissance des mathematiques pour assurer fa soliditi des
bdtimens) et recherches sur fa construction des ponts (paris, 1805). [R.T.]