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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
Walter Benjamin
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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
Walter Benjamin
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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