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The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer

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Theodor W. Adorno, “The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer,” in Notes to Literature, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Columbia University Press, combined edition 2019), pp. 332–334, especially 332–333

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5 Theodor W. Adorno, “The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer,” in Notes to Literature, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Columbia University Press, combined edition 2019), pp. 332–334, especially 332–333; PDF pp. 330–332. Title and copyright PDF pp. 2–3. Participant recollection of his school years, not a contemporary diary. Public faculty reading copy, https://web-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Adorno_Notes_complete_edition.pdf, accessed October 19, 2026.