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At the beginning of this book, Benjamin admitted that what he was doing was criticism rather than commentary. "What criticism explores is the true connotation of works of art." He tried to reveal the dimension of meaning hidden in Goethe's works as real connotation. In his opinion, it started the trend of classicism, which tried to clarify not ethical and historical issues, but mythological and philological issues. What it thinks about is not the idea in the process of being generated, but the connotation that has been formed and contains life and language. These rich and complex levels are particularly prominent in Goethe's late works.

"One-Way Street" is the masterpiece of the legendary German philosopher Benjamin. The book is short and concise, containing 60 random remarks, aphorisms and philosophical thoughts. From Benjamin's microscopic, philosophical and poetic works, you can feel the loneliness and exploration of a genius. Everyday things sparkle in his unique narrative, refreshing your mind and moving your heart from loneliness to abundance.

Benjamin's thoughts are famous for their complexity, strangeness and unpredictable changes, and the thought of redemption is a thread that runs throughout. Taking salvation as the perspective, this book collects important documents on Benjamin's literary criticism, trying to show the trajectory of the thought of salvation in the field of literary criticism and gain a glimpse of Benjamin's overall thought. The objects of Benjamin's literary criticism are all giants of modern Western literature, such as Goethe and Holderlin. They are also thinkers who diagnose and treat the crisis of Western modernity. Therefore, this book actually provides us with a topographic map for interpreting modern Western thought and literature.