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Vol. 37 No. 1 (jan./abr. - 2024): Memória e história: potências e tensões nos usos de acervos privados

The marginal city and its invisibles: a look from the "Moscow Diary", by Walter Benjamin

Submitted
August 5, 2023
Published
2024-04-05

Abstract

This article aims to carry out a reading of post-revolutionary Moscow society, analyzing, based on the reports contained in Moscow Diary, written by Walter Benjamin in the period between December 6, 1926 and the end of January 1927, the representations of the marginal city and its “invisible” characters, whether in the dimensions of work, consumption or the city.

Keywords: Walter Benjamin, Moscow Diary, diary, city.

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