From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane's body of work is the long poem Ulysses, fir[...]
This is the first book length study of one of Romania's greatest poets. Benjamin Fondane was a close friend of Lev Cheslov, a profound critic of contemporary European thought, and a thoughtful critic of the role of the Jew in Western civilization. In Fondane's work we confront the moral fiber of our[...]
Den förste oktober 1926 lägger ångaren Paris till i New Yorks hamn. Ombord finns ett tjugotal verk av skulptören Constantin Brancusi, som ska ställas ut i staden. En av skulpturerna, den så småningom världsberömda Fågel i rymden, anses av dem amerikanska tullen inte vara ett konstverk utan[...]