ABSTRACT
The difficulty with Benjamin’s oeuvre is division. A division that takes place within the oeuvre itself. However there is nothing remarkable in the capacity to trace the marks of differences that divide a complete works, thereby establishing a war of interpretive worlds. Nor is the presence of difference in itself the only significant moment marking the text. For all intents and purposes the Benjamin who wrote about Karl Krauss, Eduard Fuchs, and who wrote ‘A Small History of Photography’, need not be the same Benjamin who wrote ‘On some motifs in Baudelaire’, ‘The storyteller’ and ‘On the concept of history’. Indeed the difference gives rise to choice and selection. Scholem,1 Roberts2 and Eagleton3 expressed their choice. Other and at times more sophisticated, commentators4 have attempted to establish thematic and structural connections within the works as a whole. The history of choice and the choices made remain to be told.
