The Storyteller
Tales out of Loneliness
Published on 26. July 2016
240 pages
978-1-78478-306-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-306-8 (9781784783068)
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Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Walter Benjamin and the Magnetic Play of Words
- Part One: Dreamworlds
- Fantasy
- Chapter 1: Schiller and Goethe: A Layman's Vision
- Chapter 2: In a Big Old City: Novella Fragment
- Chapter 3: The Hypochondriac in the Landscape
- Chapter 4: The Morning of the Empress
- Chapter 5: The Pan of the Evening
- Chapter 6: The Second Self: A New Year's Story for Contemplation
- Dreams
- Chapter 7: Dreams from Ignaz Jezower's Das Buch der Träume
- Chapter 8: Too Close
- Chapter 9: Ibizan Dream
- Chapter 10: Self-Portraits of a Dreamer
- The Grandson
- The Seer
- The Lover
- The Knower
- The Tight-Lipped One
- The Chronicler
- Chapter 11: Dream I
- Chapter 12: Dream II
- Chapter 13: Once Again
- Chapter 14: Letter to Toet Blaupot ten Cate
- Chapter 15: A Christmas Song
- Chapter 16: The Moon
- Welti's Moonlit Night
- The Water Glass
- The Moon
- In the Dark
- The Dream
- Chapter 17: Diary Notes
- Chapter 18: Review: Albert Béguin, The Romantic Soul and the Dream
- Part Two: Travel
- City and Transit
- Chapter 19: Still Story
- Chapter 20: The Aviator
- Chapter 21: The Death of the Father: Novella
- Chapter 22: The Siren
- Chapter 23: Sketched into Mobile Dust: Novella
- Chapter 24: Palais D.y
- Chapter 25: Review: Franz Hessel, Secret Berlin
- Chapter 26: Review: Detective Novels, on Tour
- Landscape and Seascape
- Chapter 27: Nordic Sea
- Town
- Flowers
- Furniture
- Light
- Gulls
- Statues
- Chapter 28: Tales Out of Loneliness
- The Wall
- The Pipe
- The Light
- Chapter 29: The Voyage of The Mascot
- Chapter 30: The Cactus Hedge
- Chapter 31: Reviews: Landscape and Travel
- Part Three: Play and Pedagogy
- Chapter 32: Review: Collection of Frankfurt Children's Rhymes
- Chapter 33: Fantasy Sentences
- Chapter 34: Wall Calendar from Die literarische Welt for 1927
- Chapter 35: Riddles
- The Stranger's Reply
- Succinct
- Chapter 36: Radio Games
- Chapter 37: Short Stories
- Why the Elephant Is Called 'Elephant'
- How the Boat Was Invented and Why It Is Called 'Boat'
- Funny Story from When There Were Not Yet Any People
- Chapter 38: Four Tales
- The Warning
- The Signature
- The Wish
- Thanks
- Chapter 39: On the Minute
- Chapter 40: The Lucky Hand: A Conversation about Gambling
- Chapter 41: Colonial Pedagogy: Review of Alois Jalkotzy, The Fairy Tale and the Present
- Chapter 42: Verdant Elements: Review of Tom Seidemann-Freud, Play Primer 2 and 3: Something More on
- Notes
- Translators' Note
- About the Illustrations: Paul Klee
