{"product_id":"9781681370583","title":"The Storyteller Essays","description":"By: Walter Benjamin     \u003chr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Lukács; by Paul Valéry; 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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46764566970595,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781681370583","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781681370583.jpg?v=1751660224","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9781681370583","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}