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Walter Benjamin

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Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, …

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Le liriche appassionate e intense, tese a trovare segrete corrispondenze con il mondo della natura, nell'affascinante capolavoro di Baudelaire (1821-67). Un'inconsueta alleanza tra prosa nuda e poesia pura in un'opera serrata e provocatoria che, come scrisse Hugo, "risplende e abbaglia come una stella".