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The Storyteller
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A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories
The Storyteller 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 Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. 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.
The Storyteller 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 Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. 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.
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Tom Hale
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electric_lizard
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“caveat: I am too dumb to understand 90% of these vignettes, and I skipped the book reviews which I know is cheating, but I just love me some super-short stories!!”
Genesis
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“It is so special everytime we get to read his words.”
Rowan Hill
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“I enjoyed this collection, but it is kind of hard to review or even really categorize for readers. If I were to sum it up, this feels like a collection of thoughts explored in different ways and to different degrees rather than a collection of complete short stories. Knowing the author, that wasn't really a surprise for me, but others looking for a more traditional/commercial collection will probably find this one a little tough. Despite that, I enjoyed engaging with the ideas and found it a good thing to pick up in between some of my other reads. I won't really pick a 'favorite' piece this time because it just isn't that type of collection. If you are looking for something to make you think a bit, check this one out!”
About Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (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 Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
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