The storyteller
Subtitle: tales out of loneliness
By: Walter Benjamin ; with illustrations by Paul Klee ; translated and edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski
Contributors: Klee, Paul, 1879-1940, illustrator; Dolbear, Sam, translator, editor; Leslie, Esther, 1964- translator, editor; Truskolaski, Sebastian, translator, editor
Edition: First [edition].
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781784783044
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories. This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin is best known for his groundbreaking studies on culture and literature, including the collections Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project, but here for the first time are gathered his experiments in fiction, with forms including novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables, and riddles. As well as highlighting the themes that run throughout his work, the collection demonstrates that his singular style could create extraordinary imaginative worlds that will delight those who are fascinated by his thinking, as well as readers of literary fiction such as Franz Kafka and Stefan Zweig and the uncanny tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann. This collection is translated and edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translation from the German.
Table of contents: title: Schiller and Goethe: A layman's vision --; title: In a big old city: Novella fragment --; title: The hypochondriac in the  landscape --; title: The morning of the Empress --; title: The pan of the evening --; title: The second self: A New Year's story for contemplation  --; title: Dreams  from Ignaz Jezower's Das Buch der Träume --; title: Too close --; title: Ibizan Dream --; title: Self-portraits of a dreamer --; title: Dream I --; title: Dream II --; title: Once again --; title: Letter to Toet Blaupot ten Cate --; title: A Christmas  song --; title: The Moon --; title: Diary notes --; title: Review: Albert Béguin, the romantic soul and the dream --; title: Still story --; title: The aviator --; title: The  death of the father: Novella --; title: The siren --; title: Sketched into mobile dust: Novella --; title: Palais D...y --; title: Review: Franz Hessel, secret Berlin --; title: --; title: Review: Detective novels, on  tour --; title: Nordic Sea --; title: Tales out of loneliness --; title: The voyage of the mascot --; title: The cactus hedge --; title: Reviews: Landscape and travel --; title: Review: Collection of Frankfurt children's rhymes --; title: Fantasy  sentences --; title: Wall calendar from Die literarische Welt for 1927 --; title: Riddles --; title: Radio games --; title: Short Stories --; title: Four tales --; title: On the minute --; title: The lucky hand --; title: Colonial pedagory: Review of  Alois Jalkotzy --; title: Verdant elements Review of Tom Seidemann-Freud, Play primer 2 and 3: Something More on the Play  primer.