The Storyteller Reflections... «Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader»

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  The Storyteller

  Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov

  I Familiar though his name may be to us, the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. He has already become something remote from us and something that is getting even more distant. To present someone like Leskov as a storyteller does not mean bringing him closer to us but, rather, increasing our distance from him. Viewed from a certain distance, the great, simple outlines which define the storyteller stand out in him, or rather, they become visible in him, just as in a rock a human head or an animal's body may appear to an observer at the proper distance and angle of vision.

  (Walter Benjamin)

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