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Hessel (November 21, 1880 – January 6, 1941) was a German writer and
translator. With Walter Benjamin, he produced a German translation of three
volumes of
Marcel Proust's 1913-1927 work À la recherche du temps perdu in the
late 1920s.[1]
Hessel's parents, Fanny and Heinrich Hessel, came to Berlin in 1880, and joined the Lutheran church (having been born Jewish).[2] Hessel became one of the first German exponents of the French idea of flânerie, and in 1929 published a collection of essays on the subject related to his native Berlin, Walking in Berlin (Spazieren in Berlin).[3][4]
Hessel's son Stéphane Hessel became a diplomat.
Hessel inspired the character of Jules in Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim.[5][6]
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