Walter Benjamin • O narrador ou contador de histórias

In this video I talk about Walter Benjamin's text, "The Storyteller" or "The Narrator," depending on the translation: 1. Playlist about Philosophy; 2. Who is Walter Benjamin? Difficult to define (philosopher, essayist, critic), author of an immense body of work (Religion, politics, aesthetics), German Jew, died fleeing Nazism; 3. Friend who studied Benjamin and Guimarães Rosa; 4. Friend who asked me to record Walter Benjamin; 5. Failed attempts to read Walter Benjamin; 6. Pandemic, buying books and resuming reading; 7. "The Storyteller"; various translations of the text in Portuguese, "Narrator" or "Storyteller"? Experience and narration, experience and travels, sedentary peasant versus merchant sailor, practical sense and wisdom, romance and the death of the art of storytelling (solitude), information as explanation (narrative only insinuates), memory and reproduction of narratives, fairy tales as narrative par excellence; 8. The short stories of Walter Benjamin; 9. The short stories of Nikolai Leskov; 10. A university professor who was captivated by the storyteller.