{"product_id":"the-storyteller-essays-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"The Storyteller Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, \"\u003cem\u003eThe Storyteller,\u003c\/em\u003e\" 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Storyteller”\u003c\/em\u003e 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 The Storyteller Essays 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45576136556591,"sku":"9781681370583","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781681370583.jpg?v=1783515978","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-storyteller-essays-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}