About the book: 2024 / Walter Benjamin plunges into memories of childhood. Touching sketches about growing up at the turn of the century from the famous German philosopher. In 1900, Walter Benjamin, a boy from a Jewish family, was only 8 years old. Over the course of life, memories of childhood become thinner and erased. But Benjamin was able to look into the gaps of time and collect from colored fragments, smells, halftones and moods wonderful, tender sketches about years dear to his heart. Memories of skating, a collection of postcards, the smell of a Christmas tree and the rustle of books that surrounded him since childhood, - Walter Benjamin lovingly describes all these tiny fragments of childhood, enveloping the reader in the magic of his whimsical, poetic metaphors.