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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire - Benjamin, Walter, and Jennings, Michael W (Editor), and Eiland, Howard (Translated by)
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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.

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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire 2006, Belknap Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674022874

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