Benjamin's Crossing Sylvia Townsend Warner With a cat

With a cat

a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories

‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’

loneliness

But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans

Benjamin's Crossing Sylvia Townsend Warner With a catParini's engaging novel of intellectual and personal history re imagines the life of essayist and philosopher Walter Benjamin, one of this century's most brilliant literary and cultural critics. Benjamin, a German Jew forced into exile by Hitler, was not well known at the time of his suicide in 1940 but in recent years has gained widespread admiration in academic circles for his subtle insights into the nature of literature. Parini's story, written in