...had sworn never to occupy closed rooms. The shock I had then must be felt by the reader of Nadja.) To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...aristocratic virtue, has become more and more an affair of petit-bourgeois parvenus. Nadja has achieved the true, creative synthesis between the art novel and...

...we might imagine, join Breton to his modernist contemporaries, Walter Benjamin was drawn to remark, "To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...aristocratic virtue, has become more and more an affair of petitbourgeois parvenus."4 Such an ideology of the glass house of the soul, a psychogeographic glass...

...a morality effect produced by glass in terms remarkably close to Benjamin's, written the same year: "To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...aristocratic virtue, has become more and more an affair of petit-bourgeois parvenus."13 For Benjamin as for Meyer glass was a material without aura — cold,...

...found out that in these rooms lived members of a sect who had sworn never to occupy closed rooms. ... To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...aristocratic virtue, has become more and more an affair of petit-bourgeois parvenus. ("Surrealism," 180, my emphasis) By ending his essay "Andre Gide und sein...

...doubt have cast as a virtue, if challenged, in the spirit of Walter Benjamin's remark that "[living] in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue par excellence....intoxication, a moral exhibitionism, that we badly need."7 He was born in Eppendorf, Saxony, an industrial village in one of Germany's most industrialized...

...who had sworn never to occupy closed rooms. The shock I had then must be felt by the reader of Nadja) To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...intoxication, a moral exhibitionism, that we badly need. [...] The lady, in esoteric love, matters least. So, too, for Breton. He is closer to the things that...

...he was astonished by the number of bedroom doors left open by the guests. It made him realize that "to live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...par excellence. It is also an intoxication, a moral exhibition that we badly need. Discretion concerning one's own existence, once an aristocratic virtue,...

...in direct response to the architect's polemic against antiquated and academic modes of perception. "It is also an intoxication, a moral exhibitionism, that we badly need."' Yet the utopia of glass dreamed of by architectural visionaries from Paul Scheerbart to Bruno Taut...

...one would find the task of literary criticism has not changed as much as mortified even further.18 To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue...aristocratic virtue, has become more and more an affair of petit-bourgeois parvenus' (1978, 180). Benjamin wrote these words without dreaming of the glass houses...

...domestic interior. Alluding to imagery in Andre' Breton's Nadja, he asserts in his 'Surrealism' essay that 'To live in a glass house is a revolutionary virtue par excellence', and praises Le Corbusier's liquidation of the dwelling's monumentality. Benjamin's use of such concepts...