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Essaying in Autobiography: Wystan Hugh Auden's and Walter Benjamin's Faces
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2010
- pp. 333-349
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0981
- Article
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This essay engages with the essay as a hybrid form of life writing in which Wystan Hugh Auden and Walter Benjamin reconfi gure their understanding of the signifi cance of the human face. Invaded by history, Benjamin responds with a new faceless vision. Auden, for his part, defends his European faces as a defense from chimerical publics.