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Gelley, Alexander
Benjamin's Passages, 12/2014Book Chapter
In May 1940, on the eve of his departure from Paris, a departure that would be definitive, Benjamin wrote a long letter to Theodor Adorno. In response to comments that Adorno had written him in a few months earlier regarding the relation of forgetting and experience (Vergessen, Erfahrung),¹ Benjamin wrote, “There can be no doubt that the concept of forgetting which you inject into your discussion of the aura is of great significance. . . . I cannot pursue this now . . . It seems unavoidable to me that I will again confront in my work the question you
