Critique seeks the truth content of a work of art; commentary, its material content. The relation between the two is determined by that basic law of literature according to which the more significant the work, the more inconspicuously and intimately its truth content is bound up with its material content. — Walter Benjamin, “Goethe’s Elective Affinities” in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1996), 297.