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1、IEditedbyMichaelW.JenningsTranslatedbyHowardEiland,EdmundJephcott,RodneyLivingston,andHarryZohnTheWriterolModernLileEssaysontharlesBaudelaireWalterBenjaminTheBelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPressCambridge,Masschusetts,andLondon,England2006TheWriterofModernLifeEssaysonCharlesBaudelaireWALTERBENJAM
2、INEditedbyMichaelWJenningsWalterBenjamin'sessaysonthegreatFrenchlyricpoetCharlesBaudelairerevolutionizednotjustthewaywethinkaboutBaudelaire,butourunderstandingofmodernity,mod•ernism,andBenjamin.WhatpropelsthesewritingsispersonalforBenjamin.Intheseessays,hechallengestheimageofBaudelaireaslate-Rom
3、anticdreamer,andevokesinsteadthemodernpoetcaughtinalife-or-deathstrugglewiththeforcesoftheurbancom•moditycapitalismthathademergedinParisaround1850.TheBaudelairewhostepsforthfromthesepagesistheflaneurwhoaffixesimagesashestrollsthroughmercantileParis,therag•pickerwhocollectsurbandetritusonlytoturn
4、itintopoetry,themodernherowillingtobemarkedbymodernlifeinitscontradic•tionsandparadoxes.Heisineveryinstancethemodernartistforcedtocommodifyhisliteraryproduction:"Baudelaireknewhowitstoodwiththepoet:asaflaneurhewenttothemarket;tolookitover,ashethought,butinrealitytofindabuyer."BenjaminrevealsBaud
5、elaireasasocialpoetoftheveryfirst(Contiuued011back.ffa.p)TheWriterolModernLileCopyright©2006bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollegeAllrightsreservedPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaAdditionalcopyrightnoticesappearonpage307,whichconstitutesanextensionofthecopyrightpage.LibraryofCongressCatalogin
6、g-in-PublicationDataBenjamin,Walter,1892-1940.[Essays.English.Selections]Thewriterofmodernlife:essaysonCharlesBaudelaireIWalterBenjamin;editedbyMichaelW.Jennings.p.cm.SelectedessaysfromWalterBenjamin'sGesammelteSchriften.Includesbibliog~aphicalreferencesandindex.·ISBN-13:978-0-674-02287-4(alk.J?
7、aper)ISBN-10:o-674-02287-4(alk.paper)1.Baudelaire,Charles,1821-1867-Criticismandinterpretation.2.Baudelaire,Charles,1821-1867-Influence.I.Jennings,MichaelWilliam.II.Title.PQ2191.Z5B397132006841'.8-dc222006043584[ontentsIntro
