期刊名称：Cultural Logic : an Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN：1097-3087
出版年度：2010
出版社：Department of English and Foreign Languages
摘要：The epilogue, as it were, of Erdmut Wizisla’s Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht – The Story of a Friendship offers a close reading of Brecht’s four poems commemorating his friend, who committed suicide in 1940. “The poems,” Wizisla writes, “whose personal character as portraits is rare in Brecht’s lyrical works, preserve for ever the name of the victim.” Wizisla then concludes this final section and the book as a whole (appendices excepted) with a quotation from that very victim: The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious. And this enemy has never ceased to be victorious.
