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Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681370581

ISBN-139781681370583

eBay Product ID (ePID)24038472849

Product Key Features

Book TitleStoryteller Essays

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / German, Short Stories (Single Author), Semiotics & Theory, Essays

Publication Year2019

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections

AuthorWalter Benjamin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-036771

Reviews"[T]he newly published collection The Storyteller Essays , translated by Tess Lewis and edited by Samuel Titan, marks a unique achievement. ... It provides a brief intellectual history of an essay and revivifies it" --Clint Williamson, Full Stop

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal838.91209

Table Of ContentIntroduction THE STORYTELLER ESSAYS Introduction Johann Peter Hebel The Crisis of the Novel: On Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz Mulberry Omelet The Lisbon Earthquake Oskar Maria Graf as Storyteller On Proverbs The Handkerchief Storytelling and Healing Reading Novels The Art of Storytelling By the Fire Experience and Poverty The Storyteller ESSAYS BY OTHERS Silence and Mirror by Ernst Bloch The Giant's Toy as Legend by Ernst Bloch The Embroidery of Marie Monnier by Paul Valéry From Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukács On Sadness by Michel de Montaigne From Histories by Herodotus From The Treasure Chest of the Rhenish Family-Friend by Johann Peter Hebel

SynopsisA 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. "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 The Storyteller Essays 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., 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. "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 The Storyteller Essays 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 Lukacs; by Paul Valery; 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., 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. "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 The Storyteller Essays 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 Luk cs; by Paul Val ry; 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.

LC Classification NumberPT2603.E455A2 2019