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Tables of Contents for Selected Writings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
MOSCOW, 1927
Dream Kitsch
3
3
The Political Groupings of Russian Writers
6
6
On the Present Situation of Russian Film
12
4
Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz
16
4
Introductory Remarks on a Series for L'Humanite
20
2
Moscow
22
25
Review of Gladkov's Cement
47
3
Journalism
50
1
Gottfried Keller
51
11
Diary of My Journey to the Loire
62
4
Review of Soupault's Le coeur d'or
66
2
The Idea of a Mystery
68
1
Review of Hessel's Heimliches Berlin
69
3
A State Monopoly on Pornography
72
5
IMAGE IMPERATIVES, 1928
Curriculum Vitae (III)
77
3
Andre Gide and Germany
80
5
Main Features of My Second Impression of Hashish
85
6
Conversation with Andre Gide
91
7
Old Toys
98
5
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Turm
103
4
Moonlit Nights on the Rue La Boetie
107
3
Karl Kraus Reads Offenbach
110
3
The Cultural History of Toys
113
4
Toys and Play
117
5
Everything Is Thought
122
1
Books by the Mentally Ill
123
8
Review of the Mendelssohns' Der Mensch in der Handschrift
131
4
Food Fair
135
6
Paris as Goddess
141
3
The Path to Success, in Thirteen Theses
144
4
Weimar
148
3
The Fireside Saga
151
4
News about Flowers
155
3
Review of Green's Adrienne Mesurat
158
3
Goethe
161
33
Karl Kraus (Fragment)
194
5
THE RETURN OF THE FLANEUR, 1929
Chaplin
199
2
Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater
201
6
Surrealism
207
15
Chaplin in Retrospect
222
3
Chambermaids' Romances of the Past Century
225
7
Marseilles
232
5
On the Image of Proust
237
11
The Great Art of Making Things Seem Closer Together
248
1
Milieu Theoreticians
249
1
Children's Literature
250
7
Robert Walser
257
5
The Return of the Flaneur
262
6
Short Shadows (I)
268
5
A Communist Pedagogy
273
3
Notes on a Coversation with Bela Balasz
276
2
Some Remarks on Folk Art
278
3
Tip for Patrons
281
4
CRISIS AND CRITIQUE, 1930
Notes (II)
285
3
Notes (III)
288
1
Program for Literary Criticism
289
8
Notes on a Theory of Gambling
297
2
The Crisis of the Novel
299
6
An Outsider Makes His Mark
305
7
Theories of German Fascism
312
10
Demonic Berlin
322
5
Hashish, Beginning of March 1930
327
4
Julien Green
331
6
Paris Diary
337
18
Review of Kracauer's Die Angestellten
355
3
Food
358
7
Bert Brecht
365
7
The First Form of Criticism That Refuses to Judge
372
2
From the Brecht Commentary
374
4
Against a Masterpiece
378
8
Myslovice---Braunschweig---Marseilles
386
8
A Critique of the Publishing Industry
394
4
Graphology Old and New
398
3
Characterization of the New Generation
401
2
The Need to Take the Mediating Character of Bourgeois Writing Seriously
403
2
False Criticism
405
4
Antitheses
409
4
THE DESTRUCTIVE CHARACTER, 1931
In Parallel with My Actual Diary
413
2
Criticism as the Fundamental Discipline of Literary History
415
2
Critique of the New Objectivity
417
2
We Ought to Reexamine the Link between Teaching and Research
419
2
Hofmannsthal and Aleco Dossena
421
2
Left-Wing Melancholy
423
5
Theological Criticism
428
5
Karl Kraus
433
26
Literary History and the Study of Literature
459
7
German Letters
466
3
May--June 1931
469
17
Unpacking My Library
486
8
Franz Kafka: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer
494
7
Diary from August 7, 1931, to the Day of My Death
501
6
Little History of Photography
507
24
Paul Valery
531
5
The Lisbon Earthquake
536
5
The Destructive Character
541
2
Reflections on Radio
543
2
Mickey Mouse
545
2
In Almost Every Example We Have of Materialist Literary History
547
1
The Task of the Critic
548
5
IBIZAN SEQUENCE, 1932
Experience
553
1
On Ships, Mine Shafts, and Crucifixes in Bottles
554
1
On the Trail of Old Letters
555
4
A Family Drama in the Epic Theater
559
4
The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay
563
6
Privileged Thinking
569
7
Excavation and Memory
576
1
Oedipus, or Rational Myth
577
5
On Proverbs
582
1
Theater and Radio
583
4
Ibizan Sequence
587
8
A Berlin Chronicle
595
43
Spain, 1932
638
15
Light from Obscurantists
653
5
The Handkerchief
658
4
In the Sun
662
4
The Rigorous Study of Art
666
7
Hashish in Marseilles
673
7
The Eve of Departure
680
4
On Astrology
684
2
``Try to Ensure That Everything in Life Has a Consequence''
686
1
Notes (IV)
687
4
THOUGHT FIGURES, 1933
The Lamp
691
3
Doctrine of the Similar
694
5
Short Shadows (II)
699
4
Kierkegaard
703
3
Stefan George in Retrospect
706
6
Agesilaus Santander (First Version)
712
2
Agesilaus Santander (Second Version)
714
3
Antitheses Concerning Word and Name
717
3
On the Mimetic Faculty
720
3
Thought Figures
723
5
Little Tricks of the Trade
728
3
Experience and Poverty
731
8
THE AUTHOR AS PRODUCER, 1934
Once Is as Good as Never
739
2
The Newspaper
741
2
Venal but Unusable
743
1
The Present Social Situation of the French Writer
744
24
The Author as Producer
768
15
Notes from Svendborg, Summer 1934
783
9
Hitler's Diminished Masculinity
792
2
Franz Kafka
794
27
A Note on the Texts
821
2
Chronology, 1927--1934
823
34
Index
857