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‘Proverbs are a school of crude thinking,’ he writes in the same context; and the art of taking proverbial and idiomatic speech literally enabled Benjamin – as it did Kafka, in whom figures of speech are often clearly discernible as a source of inspiration and furnish the key to many a ‘riddle’ – to write a prose of such singularly enchanting and enchanted closeness to reality.
Wherever one looks in Benjamin’s life, one will find the little hunchback. Long before the outbreak of the Third Reich he was playing his evil tricks, causing publishers who had promised Benjamin an annual stipend for reading manuscripts or editing a periodical for them to go bankrupt before the first number appeared. Later the hunchback did allow a collection of magnificent German letters, made with infinite care and provided with the most marvellous commentaries, to be printed – under the title Deutsche Menschen and with the motto
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