The Writer of Modern Life

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The Writer of Modern Life is written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674022874 (ISBN 10) and 9780674022874 (ISBN 13).

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.