Walter Benjamin y la génesis de Das Passagen-Werk. Un encantamiento dialéctico

In 1928 Walter Benjamin declared his ambition to "take up the legacy of surrealism". He pictured himself exercising "al the powers of command of a philosophical Fortinbras" in order to movilize the legitimate energies of surrealist´s aesthetics for his own critical work. By historizing and contextualizing "Dreamkitsch", Benjamin´s first essay on Breton, Aragon and Eluard, this study explores his tentative to reconstruct the surrealist vision of a modern mythology, incorporating it into his own theory or "historical illumination". The result is a interpretative framework wich attemps to make sense of what appear, on first sight, to be contradictory and paradoxical impulses within Benjain´s early characterization of the Arcades Project as a dialectical fairy scense.