Agenda

Mantenir una història lliure d'explicacions. L'assaig de Walter Benjamin sobre Kafka (1934)

Conference by Dr. Erdmut Wizisla

Tuesday, April 8th - 18 h

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

As part of Walter Benjamin Week, the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies will host the conference "Mantenir una història lliure d'explicacions. L'assaig de Walter Benjamin sobre Kafka (1934)" with Dr. Erdmut Wizisla (director of the Walter Benjamin Archive at the Berlin Academy of Arts) as speaker.

The seminar offers an exemplary reading of Benjamin's essay on Kafka, a famous but difficult-to-understand work. The relationship between Benjamin and Kafka is presented as a constellation. At the same time, it addresses a procedure that Benjamin repeats in his work: understanding literature without offering interpretations, only by telling stories, a fascinating method.
Language: German, with simultaneous translation into Catalan.

Introduction: Dr. Silvia Planas, director of the Museum of Jewish History in Girona.

Free admission without registration until capacity is reached.

See the full program with all the conferences and activities taking place in Barcelona, ​​​​Girona, ​​Marseille, and Portbou..

Organized by: Walter Benjamin Chair, Memory and Exile, University of Girona.. Collaborator: Patronat Call de Girona