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The Writer of Modern Life

Paperback • 2006 • English

The Writer of Modern Life

By Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin’s essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire who steps forth from these pages is the flâneur...Show more

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9780674022874

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Writer of Modern Life

Format

Paperback

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