The Storyteller Essays

<b>A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay The Storyteller this collection includes short stories book reviews parables and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.</b><br><br> &#147;The Storyteller&#148; is one of Walter Benjamin&#146;s most important essays a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form social life and individual existence&#151;and the product of at least a decade&#146;s work. What might be called the story of <i>The Storyteller Essays</i> starts in 1926 with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays book reviews short stories parables and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin&#146;s thinking changed and ripened over time while including several key readings of his own&#151;texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Luk&#225;cs; by Paul Val&#233;ry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally to bring things around there are three short stories by &#147;the incomparable Hebel&#148; with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.