![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was. Just as we cannot see the surrounding architecture and the physical texture when Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is photographically reproduced on a postcard, poster or T-shirt, we cannot see the face or hear the voice of the storyteller in a commodity-driven system where the novel is one among many mass-produced commodities designed to exploit the public’s insatiable desire for narrative. Walter Benjamin (18921940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. The crux of Benjamin’s argument, as in his ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, rests upon the concept of ‘aura’ which, he argues in that essay, is a quality of immanence and originality that is lost in mass-produced art. ![]() ![]() ![]() He contrasts the idea of the folkloric storyteller, a social, political and fundamentally physical presence with the idea of the author whom, he argues, is asocial and is able to tell stories without physical presence but also without actively being a part of the everyday world. In his influential essay, ‘The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov’ (1977a), Walter Benjamin laments the decline of the art of storytelling. ![]()
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