A
beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories
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.