On the Traditional Tendency of Walter Benjamin's Literary Criticism:Taking The Storyteller as an example
In Walter Benjamin's critical system,Nikolai Leskov is a"storyteller"rooted in tradition and clas-sics,unlike modernist writers such as Baudelaire and Kafka.The reasons why Benjamin loved Nicola Leskovand the genre"story"can be analyzed from three aspects.Looking back on his life,"story"both carries his thirst for stability in exile and serves as a fulcrum for him to reminisce about his childhood.Tracing from his academic sys-tem,"story"not only carries Benjamin's lament for the disappearance of the Aura in The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,but also reflects his in-depth thinking on the dissipation of the Aura in the traditional spirit.Examining his late academic concerns,Benjamin selects"story",a topic that seems to be far re-moved from the rise of modern urban commodity capitalism,and extracts the core topic of"Erfahrung"for his cri-tique of modernity.
Walter BenjaminThe StorytellerNikolay LeskovstoryAura
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