The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire - Walter Benjamin - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674022874 - November 1, 2006
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Walter Benjamin
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

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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.

320 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 1, 2006
ISBN13 9780674022874
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 143 × 209 × 24 mm   ·   380 g
Language English  
Translator Eiland, Howard
Translator Jephcott, Edmund
Translator Livingstone, Rodney
Translator Zohn, Harry

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