Berlin childhood in the early twentieth century

The book does not deal, as its title might suggest, with the biography of the author's childhood in the usual sense, as it does not narrate how his upbringing or education was, but rather tries through short and concise texts to carve murals through which he preserves the memory of his city in which he enjoyed a prosperous childhood that he will not see again with the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany. Walter Benjamin offers an intelligent observation of the early twentieth century and the transformations that accompanied it, such as the introduction of the telephone into Berlin homes, the phenomenon of gymnasiums and their showy atmospheres, and the surrender of the Imperial Panorama to the emerging cinema art. He also depicts the atmosphere of bourgeois Jewish life in the western neighborhoods of Berlin and portrays the city's landmarks as they remained in his memory since childhood. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most important German thinkers and literary critics of the twentieth century, distinguished by his unique reflections on language, literature, art, and history. He studied philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich, and Bern, and lived in Berlin as a writer and translator until he decided in 1933, with the rise of the Nazis to power, to emigrate to France. He committed suicide on September 27, 1940, in Portbou on the French-Spanish border, fearing his arrest by Nazi forces. Among his most famous works are "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," "The Translator's Task," "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century," "Portrait of Proust," "On the Concept of History," and "One-Way Street." Benjamin also co-translated, with Franz Hessel, Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" into German. The translator Ahmed Farouk was born in Giza, Egypt, in 1971. He studied media at Cairo University and translation at the College of Language and Cultural Studies in Gummersheim at the University of Mainz in Germany. Among his translations from German are the novels "The Years of the Dogs" by Günter Grass (2003) and "Lipedisi" by Georg Klein (2007), as well as critical essays by Michael Maar titled "Fangs in the Temple."