![]() Elif Shafak,ĭreams, diaries, reviews, fragments, and short fiction make up The Storyteller, but there's no denying that this potpourri by the German critic and philosopher Benjamin is an essential addition to the corpus of one of the 20th century's preeminent figures. Theodor AdornoĪ circular book to visit again and again, a book one can start reading right in the middle or read backwards, playing with its chapters and sentences wildly and freely, just as the philosopher would have probably wished. The greatest German critic of the 20th century Stuart Jeffries,Įverything which fell under the scrutiny of his words was transformed, as though it had become radioactive. In his universe nothing is as it appears to be and there is a vital need to go beyond surfaces and connect with humanity. Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the twentieth century. He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe. There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time. Hannah Arendtīenjamin buckled himself to the task of revolutionary transformation… his life and work speak challengingly to us all.” Terry Eagleton whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. Walter Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones. This volume is a marvelous gift that will reorient our reading of Benjamin in startling ways Judith ButlerĪ complex and brilliant writer. 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Walter Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. ![]()
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