text: An essay by this man considers whether Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a "Penelope work of remembering" or a "Penelope work of forgetting.
full_question: An essay by this man considers whether Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a "Penelope work of remembering" or a "Penelope work of forgetting." This thinker recalls excitingly purchasing a copy of Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin at an auction run by Emil Hirscher in an essay about his penchant for book collecting. This author of "The Image of Proust" and "Unpacking My Library" wrote about the moment when thinking stops and a large constellation of thoughts crystallizes into a monad. That moment is considered as a "Stillstellung," or the "zero hour," of "messianic time" and appears in an essay by this man that uses Paul Klee's Angelus Novus to critique historical materialism. He laments the advent of lithography in an essay about how photographic prints lack "aura." For 10 points, name this author of "Theses on the Philosophy of History" and "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
first_sentence: An essay by this man considers whether Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a "Penelope work of remembering" or a "Penelope work of forgetting.
raw_answer: Walter Benjamin