In the storyteller the... «Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader»
innashpitzberg10 сентября 2012In the storyteller the chronicler is preserved in changed form, secularized, as it were. Leskov is among those whose work displays this with particular clarity. Both the chronicler with his eschatological orientation and the storyteller with his profane outlook are so represented in his works that in a number of his stories it can hardly be decided whether the web in which they appear is the golden fabric of a religious view of the course of things, or the multicolored fabric of a worldly view.
(Walter Benjamin, "A Storyteller")
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