The Arcades Project - Operi

11. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), p. 398.
12. Andre Gide, "Upon Rereading Ies Plaisirs et les .lours after the Death of Marcel
Proust;' trans. Blanche A. Price, in Gide, Pretexts: Rdlections on Literature and Morality,
ed.Justin O'Brien (New York: Meridian, 1959), p. 279.
13. Dolcefor niente: Italian for "sweet idleness." Images d 'Epinal were sentimental religious
posters produced in the town of Epinal in southeastern France,Jean Lacoste suggests
that Mogreby may be Maghrebin, the magician in "Aladdin and the Mal"velous
Lamp," in the Mardrus translation of Ies Mille et Une Nuils (1925). Compare
"Naples," in SUI; vol. 1, p. 419.
14. This passage involves some wordplay in the German: sich die Zeit verlreiben / auslreiben)
as opposed to die Zeit laden ! zu sidl einladen.
15. Jules Michelet, 17le People, trans.John P. McKay (Urbana: University of minois Press,
1973), p. 46.
16. Siegfried Kracauer, O,pheus in Paris: Offi nbadl and the Paris qf His Time, trans.
Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher (New York: Knopf, 1938), p. 268. Described is a
scene from Offenbach's operetta La Vie parisienne (1866).
17. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modem Life," in "The Painter qlModern Lifo"
and Other Essays, trans. Jonathan Mayne (1964; rpt. New York: Da Capo Press,
1986), p. 26.
18. Ibid., pp. 28-29.
19. Ibid., p. 29.
20. Ibid., p. 10.
21. Baudelaire, Th e Complete Vene) trans. Francis Scm'fe (London: Anvil Press, 1986),
p. 232.
22. An earlier version of this passage appears in TIle Correspondence 0/ "Walter Benjamin,
trans. Manfred R. Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1994), p. 549 (where Benjamin announces his "rare find" ).
23. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to PaweJ; trans. Walter Kaufmann and RJ. Hollingdale
(New York: Vintage, 1968), pp. 35, 36.
24. Ibid., p. 38.
25. Ibid., pp. 546-547.
26. Ibid., p. 548.
27. Ibid., p. 550.
28. Ibid., p. 549.
29, Griindejahre: years of reckless financial speculation, in this case following the Franco­
Prussian War of 1870-1871.
30. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. vValter Kaufmarul (New York: Vintage, 1969), p. 219:
"Here no 'prophet' is speaking, none of those gruesome hybrids of sickness and will
to power whom people call founders of religions."
31. Jean:Jacques Rousseau, The Corifi:ssions, trans. ]. M. Cohen (Baltimore: Penguin,
1954), p. 415.
32. The Portable Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking, 1954), pp. 101-
102 (The Gay Science) .
E [Haussmamrization, Barricade Fighting]
1. Friedrich Engels, Introduction to KaTl Marx, Tile Class Struggles in France, 1848 to
1850, trans. anonymous (New York: International Publishers, 1964), pp. 22-23.
2. Marx, The Class StruggleJ in France, p. 44.