The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness - Softcover

Benjamin, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1804290416 ISBN 13: 9781804290415

Verlag: Verso Books, 2023

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. 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. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.

Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1804290416
• ISBN 13: 9781804290415
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Dolbear Sam, Leslie Esther, Truskolaski Sebastian
• Zeichner: Klee Paul
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