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> <p/> The Storyteller is one of Walter Benjamin's most important essays a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form social life and individual existence--and the product of at least a decade'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's thinking changed and ripened over time while including several key readings of his own--texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally to bring things around there are three short stories by the incomparable Hebel with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.