The Storyteller : Tales Out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin

Description: Clean copy. No underlining or marking. Product Information This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin is best known for his groundbreaking studies on culture and literature, including the collections Illuminations, One Way Street and The Arcades Project, but here for the first time are gathered his experiments in fiction, with forms ranging from novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables, and riddles. As well as highlighting the themes that run throughout his work, the collection demonstrates that his singular style could create extraordinary imaginative worlds that will delight both those who are fascinated by his thinking, but also for a reader of literary fiction such as Franz Kafka and Stefan Zweig and the uncanny tales of ETA Hoffman.Product IdentifiersPublisherVerso BooksISBN-101784783048ISBN-139781784783044eBay Product ID (ePID)215914435Product Key FeaturesFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishPublication Year2016Number of Pages240 PagesDimensionsItem Length8.2in.Item Height0.7in.Item Width5.5in.Item Weight10.8 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberPt2603.E455Reviews"Walter Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him." --John Berger "This volume collects an extraordinary array of short pieces by Walter Benjamin that lets us see the centrality of stories, dreams, and tales to his own experimental writings. During the time in which Benjamin sought to understand the conditions of communicability between languages, he was also testing the thesis in the stories he told. Telling the tale and reflecting on its very possibility, under conditions such as war and poverty, Benjamin gives us short forms that are broken up by interruptions and sudden closure. This elegant and moving volume is beautifully edited, including an introduction that shows how these collections of short tales and dream sequences are already doing the critical work of the essay form. This volume is a marvelous gift that will reorient our reading of Benjamin in startling ways." --Judith Butler "Much praise is due to the editors for bringing together a newly translated collection of [Walter Benjamin's] short fictions, in which he shows our iniquitous material world suffused and sabotaged by the uncanny like no one else." --Jacqueline Rose, "Walter Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him." --John Berger "This volume collects an extraordinary array of short pieces by Walter Benjamin that lets us see the centrality of stories, dreams, and tales to his own experimental writings. During the time in which Benjamin sought to understand the conditions of communicability between languages, he was also testing the thesis in the stories he told. Telling the tale and reflecting on its very possibility, under conditions such as war and poverty, Benjamin gives us short forms that are broken up by interruptions and sudden closure. This elegant and moving volume is beautifully edited, including an introduction that shows how these collections of short tales and dream sequences are already doing the critical work of the essay form. This volume is a marvelous gift that will reorient our reading of Benjamin in startling ways." --Judith ButlerAuthorWalter BenjaminCopyright Date2016Target AudienceTradeTopicUrban, Short Stories (Single Author), LiteraryLccn2016-013569Dewey Decimal833.912Dewey Edition23IllustratedYesGenreFiction

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