Talk given at Birkbeck, University of London, on 22 September 2016 for the occasion of the publication of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, Edited and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie, and Sebastian Truskolaski. Illustrated by Paul Klee, Verso, London 2016 Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller: : Tales Out of Loneliness is an edition of
Walter Benjamin: Fiction and Form by Esther Leslie
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