Walter benjamin the storyteller6/21/2023 ![]() Throughout his life, Walter Benjamin experimented with a variety of literary forms. ![]() ‘The Storyteller: Walter Benjamin and the Magnetic Play of Words’-An edited excerpt from the editors’ introduction to The Storyteller In the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Esther Leslie, Marina Warner and Michael Rosen join Gareth Evans to discuss his experimentation with form and media, his concept of storytelling and the communicability of experience, and the themes that run throughout Benjamin’s creative and critical writing. An edited excerpt from the editors’ introduction, ‘The Storyteller: Walter Benjamin and the Magnetic Play of Words’, is published below, laying out how, taken together, the novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection illuminate the themes that defined Benjamin’s work. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold of dreamworlds, celebrate the ludic, and delve into the relationship between fortune-telling and gambling. ![]() ![]() The Storyteller: Tales Out Of Lonelinessgathers for the first time the fiction of Walter Benjamin, edited and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski. ![]()
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