Re: Walter Benjamin's anti-narrative

Bob wrote: > What dismayed Adorno about the project in 1935 was Benjamin's faith > that a mere assemblage of objects (in this case, decontextualized > quotations) could speak for itself. A friend of mine once wanted to write a hypertext fiction piece that would consist of a set of "rooms"

Walter Benjamin's anti-narrative

Fabulous article by J. M. Coetzee reviewing Walter Benjamin's _Selected Writings_ Vols. 1 and 2 and _The Arcade Project_ in the New York Review of Books The passage in Coetzee's review that summarizes the interest to me as a VRML-lit-