CLOUDS ATLAS: A POSSIBLE READING THROUGH WALTER BENJAMIN
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Filosofia e Literatura, Atlas de Nuvens, Walter Benjamin, Teses Sobre o Conceito de HistóriaAbstract
Knowing that Cloud Atlas (2016) opens various analytical possibilities, this brief essay chooses to map possible relationships that the book, especially concerning stories 3, 5, and 6, can establish with Walter Benjamin's philosophy, more punctually, his Theses on the Philosophy of History. It will be briefly introduced, to this end, a summary of each of the six short stories that make up Cloud Atlas and its structural organization. After that, it will be indicated specific passages by Walter Benjamin that would present similarities and resonances synchronized with the concepts that cross the literary work of David Mitchell.
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