SALLES, Vanessa Madrona Moreira. Walter Benjamin's approach to the modern metropolis and the glance surrealistic. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2011, 11, 1, pp.140-155. ISSN 1808-4281.

Walter Benjamin aims to present the different and multiple aspects of modern city. It is seen as the place where men have sensorial and intellectual experience, where social conflicts and urban transformations take place. In the streets of the city goods are sold and bought and they are mysterious and cannot be understood at once. In the street of modern city autonomous citizen, guided by enlighted thinking, cannot distinguish himself among a huge crowd of people, objects and images. In this very context, he does feel the speed things change and his own anonymous presence. The city can only be read as a mosaic and Walter Benjamin tries to understand it in the surrealistic way that he considers the richest form of doing so

: Metropolis; Surrealism; Benjamin.

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