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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Walter Benjamin , Tess Lewis , Walter Benjamin , Samuel Titan, Jr.Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc Imprint: NYRB Classics Edition: Main Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9781681370583ISBN 10: 1681370581 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 23 July 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction THE STORYTELLER ESSAYS Introduction Johann Peter Hebel The Crisis of the Novel: On Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz Mulberry Omelet The Lisbon Earthquake Oskar Maria Graf as Storyteller On Proverbs The Handkerchief Storytelling and Healing Reading Novels The Art of Storytelling By the Fire Experience and Poverty The Storyteller ESSAYS BY OTHERS Silence and Mirror by Ernst Bloch The Giant’s Toy as Legend by Ernst Bloch The Embroidery of Marie Monnier by Paul Valéry From Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukács On Sadness by Michel de Montaigne From Histories by Herodotus From The Treasure Chest of the Rhenish Family-Friend by Johann Peter HebelReviews[T]he newly published collection The Storyteller Essays, translated by Tess Lewis and edited by Samuel Titan, marks a unique achievement. . . . It provides a brief intellectual history of an essay and revivifies it --Clint Williamson, Full Stop [B]ecause it is delivered without panic, quietly, in graceful sentences, from within the culture of books and criticism, it is hard at first to accept the implications of what Benjamin is saying. You suspect he is being bombastic in order for him to come back later and tell you what modern literature's saving grace is, but the moment of redemption does not arrive. . . . Reading such claims over eighty years later, we might be reminded that every generation foresees a crisis and the end of the world as we know it. It is also possible that Benjamin had his eyes wide open at the beginning of our era and proved able to observe its salient features. --Philip O Ceallaigh, The Stinging Fly [T]he newly published collection The Storyteller Essays, translated by Tess Lewis and edited by Samuel Titan, marks a unique achievement. ... It provides a brief intellectual history of an essay and revivifies it --Clint Williamson, Full Stop Author InformationWalter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Benjamin influenced many of his contemporaries, including Bertolt Brecht, Gershom Scholem, and Theodor Adorno. Benjamin's best-known essays include ""The Task of the Translator,"" ""The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,"" and ""Theses on the Philosophy of History."" In 1940, he committed suicide in Portbou, on the French-Spanish border, when his attempt to escape Nazi forces was thwarted. Samuel Titan is an editor and translator based in Brazil. He teaches comparative literature at the University of S o Paulo. Tess Lewis has translated works from the French and German, including books by Peter Handke, Anselm Kiefer, Philippe Jaccottet, and Christine Angot. Her awards include the 2017 PEN Translation Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship. She serves as the co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee and is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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