The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century
- George Steiner,
Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre.
- Hannah Arendt,
Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him.
- John Berger,
A complex and brilliant writer
J. M. Coetzee