"Onde aparece para nós uma cadeia de acontecimentos, ele vê uma única catástrofe que continua a amontoar destroços sobre destroços e os arroja a seus pés. O anjo gostaria de se deter, despertar os mortos e reunir o que foi despedaçado, mas está soprando uma tempestade no paraíso que o impele irresistivelmente para o futuro a que volta suas costas, enquanto à sua frente o monte de ruínas cresce em direção ao céu. O que chamamos de "Progresso" é justamente esta tempestade"
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin, who owned the painting for many years, saw it as depicting "the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage
The Angel of History. (Deutsche Version)
"There is a picture by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. In it, an angel is depicted who appears as if trying to distance himself from something that he stares at. His eyes and mouth gape wide, his wings are stressed to their limit.
The Angel of History must look this way; he has turned to face the past. Where we see a constant chain of events, he sees only a single catastrophe incessantly piling ruin upon ruin and hurling them at his feet.
He would probably like to stop, waken the dead, and correct the devastation - but a storm is blowing hard from Paradise, and it is so strong he can no longer fold his wings.
While the debris piles toward the heavens before his eyes, the storm drives him incessantly into the Future that he has turned his back upon.
What we call Progress is this storm."
On tbe Concept of History IX Walter Benjamin
The Angel of History. (Deutsche Version)
"There is a picture by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. In it, an angel is depicted who appears as if trying to distance himself from something that he stares at. His eyes and mouth gape wide, his wings are stressed to their limit.
The Angel of History must look this way; he has turned to face the past. Where we see a constant chain of events, he sees only a single catastrophe incessantly piling ruin upon ruin and hurling them at his feet.
He would probably like to stop, waken the dead, and correct the devastation - but a storm is blowing hard from Paradise, and it is so strong he can no longer fold his wings.
While the debris piles toward the heavens before his eyes, the storm drives him incessantly into the Future that he has turned his back upon.
What we call Progress is this storm."
On tbe Concept of History IX Walter Benjamin
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