The following article analyses the complex of intertextual relations between the works of Walter Benjamin and Marcel Proust, showing that the latter influenced benjaminian philosophy of language as well as his theories on translation. Thus, Benjamin's Childhood in Berlin around 1900 is seen as a transportation of the elements in the proustian novel to the German-Jewish culture that surrounded Benjamin in his childhood. The Passages, on the other hand, are seen as an attempt to restore the damaged relationship between time and the individual living in an industrial society.
Walter Benjamin; Marcel Proust; childhood; memory