Walter Benjamin and the Storyteller: recreation of the short story as a critical genre

Nicolai Leskov lived and wrote at the glorious time of the nineteen-century’s Russian roman; he was a contemporary of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. But in his essay about the author, Walter Benjamin compares him to the archaic figure of the Storyteller. The origins of that figure are pre-modern and are c...

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Main Author: Patricia Gissoni de Santiago Lavelle
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2017-08-01
Series:Gragoatá
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Online Access:http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/934