Benjamin, Walter
The Storyteller Essays
- ISBN 13:
- 9781681370583
- author:
- Benjamin, Walter
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- NYRB Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 136
- Dimensions:
- 20.3 x 12.7 centimetres (0.37 kg
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Collections, Essays,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Walter Benjamin's The Storyteller Essays is a collection that spans over a decade of his work, bringing together short stories, book reviews, parables, and writings by other authors who influenced his thought. This new translation includes key readings of Benjamin's own texts by contemporaries such as Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács, alongside works by Paul Valéry and ancient writers Herodotus and Montaigne. The collection begins with a piece written in 1926 about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel, and continues through a series of short essays, book reviews, and radio shows for children. It offers a new appreciation of how Benjamin's thinking evolved over time, providing insight into his unique blend of philosophy, literature, and social commentary. The Storyteller Essays includes three short stories by Hebel, with whom the intellectual journey began, rounding out this comprehensive collection that showcases Benjamin's remarkable range and depth as a thinker.
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