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Press, 1992), p. 177. Adomo's essay was first published in the Frankfurter Zeitung
(April 18, 1931), pp. 1-2. The passages from Dickens are in chs. 12 and 44, respectively.
11. Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosoplrical Manuscripts [of 1844]:' in Karl Marx:
Selected Wiitings, ed. David McLellan (New York: Oxford Urriversity Press, 1977),
p. 9I.
12. The Portable Karl Marx, trans. Eugene Kamenka (New Yo rk: Viking Penguin, 1983),
p. lSI.
13. Marx, Selected Wiitings, p. 92.
14. Ibid., pp. 91-92.
15. This passage is not found in the English-language edition ofJohan Huizinga's book
The waning of the Middle Ages (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1954).
16. In this passage, "dispersion" translates Zerstreuung, "profundity1) translates Tiqfiinn,
and "patchwork1) translates Stiickwerk.
17. Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, trans, Frederick A. Blossom, in Remembrance 0/
Things Past, vol. 2 (New Yo rk: Random House, 1932), p. 1070. On the collector's
relation to memory and the world of things, compare QO,7 in "First Sketches."
I [Tbe Interior, Tbe Trace 1
1. "Know thyself."
2. Le Corbusier, The City qfTomorrow and Its Planning, trans. Frederick Etchells (1929;
rpt. New York: Dover, 1987), p. 259.
3. See 14a,2. In Sue's novel The Mysteries rfParis, the archvillain Fenand, whose accomplice
is a perfidious priest, is done in by the wiles of the Creole Cecily.
4. Jacques-Emile Blanche, Mes modiles (Paris, 1929), p. 117. Barres' phrase, which Benjamin
misquotes in French, is: IUn conteur arabe dans 1a loge de la portiere!" (R.T]
5. Ths whole passage is adapted from the protocol to Benjamin's second experience
with hashish inJanuary 1928. See Sf¥, vol. 2, pp. 85-90.
6. See GS, vol. 6, p. 567 (where the passage is attributed to Emst Bloch).
7. Marcel Proust, "About Baudelaire," in Proust, A Selection from His Miscellaneous m'itings,
trans. Gerard Hopkins (London: Allan Wmgate, 1948), p. 199. Citing, respectively,
from Baudelaire, Pieces Condamnees) "Une martyre,l) Pieces condamnees.
8. Soren Kierkegaard, Stages on Lifo 's way, trans. Walter Lowrie (1940; rpt. New York:
Schocken, 1967), p. 30.
9. Theodor W. Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction qfthe Aesthetic) trans. Robert Hullot­
Kentor (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989), p. 60. "Primordial"
translates urgeschichtlich. See pp. 48-49, on Kierkegaard as rentier.
10. Ibid., pp. 43-44 (the term interieur has been translated after the first sentence). The
passage from Kierkegaard is in Either/Or, vol. 1, trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian
M. Swenson, with revisions by Howard A.Johnson (1944; rpt. New York: Anchor,
1959), pp. 384-386.
11. In Ibsen's Tlte Master Builder (1892), Mrs. Solness had kept nine dolls hidden from
her husband until a ETe destroyed her family estate, catalyzing SohIess's career of
building homes for happy fillnilies. See Four Major Plays, trans. James McFarlane and
Jens Arup (New York: Oxford Urriversity Press, 1981), pp. 314-315, 335.
12. "Wolmen als Tr ansitivwn-im BegrifI des 'gewohnten Lebens' z.B."
13. The reign of Louis Philippe became known as the Middle-of-dle-Road Regime (Juste
Milieu). In a speech of 1831, he stated: We must not only cherish peace; we must
avoid everything that might provoke war. As regards domestic policy, we will en-