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Twenty years later, just before the fall of France in the summer of 1940, the philosopher Walter Benjamin, a Jew born in Berlin but then living in exile in Paris, wrote his Theses on the Philosophy of History, one of them a now famous paragraph inspired by Klee’s work: A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel…

Shakespeare introduced Goethe to the idea that language could be used to express deep thoughts and raw emotions. It was the answer to the question that had haunted him: how to articulate being German in a way that spoke to other young Germans. The first page of Shakespeare that I read made me his for life. I jumped high…