{"product_id":"the-storyteller-essays-walter-benjamin-9781681370583","title":"The Storyteller Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, \"The Storyteller,\" this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The Storyteller\" is one of Walter Benjamin's most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence--and the product of at least a decade's work. What might be called the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Storyteller Essays\u003c\/i\u003e starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin's thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own--texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Luk當s; by Paul Val駻y; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by \"the incomparable Hebel\" with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681370581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681370583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046799995135,"sku":"9781681370583","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d45636d-15d3-413b-849e-30d7988c3c35.jpg?v=1684986562","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-storyteller-essays-walter-benjamin-9781681370583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}