德国魏玛(Weimar)时期,政治动荡,经济方面通胀飙升,唯独文学方面姹紫嫣红、灿烂夺目。小说有托马斯·曼,戏剧有布莱希特,诗歌有 Rike 和 Celan,堪称一时瑜亮,评论方面更有本雅明。对读者来说,本雅明的评论文章应是倍感亲切的。虽然他年轻的时候犯了一般年轻小伙子的小毛病——恃才傲物,但自从他的博士后论文不被接纳(他在论文里,写了一篇极为艰深的方法学导论,似乎要向他的导师们暗示自己的水平比他们更高),无法在大学立足之后,他便决心面向大家,做一位出色的评论家。由一九二五年至一九三四年的十年里,他定期向《法兰克福日 Germany Weimar (Weimar) period, political turmoil, inflation soared economy, except for literary colorful, brilliant. There are Thomas Mann in novels, Brecht in plays, Rike and Celan in poetry, and Benjamin is even more commented on. For readers, Benjamin’s review articles should be more cordial. Although he was a young man guilty of the glitches of a typical young boy, he had not been accepted since his postdoctoral dissertation (in his essay he wrote an extremely difficult introduction to methodology that seemed to be offered to his mentors Implying that he is at a higher level than they are), and unable to gain a foothold in the university, he is determined to face everyone and be a good critic. During the ten years from 1925 to 1934, he regularly briefed “Frankfurt Day.”