The Storyteller - by Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories. 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 including 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 extraor-dinary imaginative worlds that will delight those who are fascinated by his thinking, as well as readers of literary fiction such as Franz Kafka and Stefan Zweig and the uncanny tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann. This collection is translated and edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories</b> <p/><i>The Storyteller</i> gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including <i>Illuminations</i>, <i>One-Way Street</i> and <i>The Arcades Project</i>. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."<br><b> --John Berger</b> <p/> "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."<br><b> --Judith Butler</b> <p/> "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."<br><b>--Jacqueline Rose</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Walter Benjamin</b> (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and phi-losopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of <i>Illuminations</i>, <i>The Arcades Project</i>, and <i>The Origin of German Tragic Drama</i>.
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