The Writer of Modern Life

Essays on Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Michael W. Jennings

Translated by Howard Eiland

Translated by Edmund Jephcott

Translated by Rodney Livingstone

Translated by Harry Zohn

    Introduction, by Michael W. Jennings

    Baudelaire

    Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century

    The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire

    Central Park

    On Some Motifs in Baudelaire

    Notes

    Index

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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Michael W. Jennings is Professor of German, Princeton University.

Howard Eiland is Lecturer in Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rodney Livingstone is Professor Emeritus in German Studies at the University of Southampton. He is well known as a translator of books by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Max Weber, among others.