Walter Benjamin Quote

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"El trabajo de la memoria colapsa el tiempo"

Translations

“The true picture of the past flits by ”

Walter Benjamin

“He who seeks to approach his own buried past”

“The storyteller's task is to name what is lost”

“Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell ”

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