Storyteller - Tales Out of Loneliness

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories

About the author

WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Among his best-known works are 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' and essays on Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire and the storyteller. His masterwork, the Arcades Project, which intended to present a cultural theory of modernity through a study of nineteenth-century Paris, remained unfin­ished at his death.Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism, Radical Philosophy and Revolutionary History.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benjamin
• Assisted by: Paul Klee (Illustration), Paul (Artist) Klee (Illustration), Sam Dolbear (Editor), Esther Leslie (Editor), Leslie Esther (Editor), Sebastian Truskolaski (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781804290415
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-041-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Western philosophy from c 1800, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -