A stranger in Moscow. El problema de la experiencia en Diario de Moscú de Walter Benjamin (1926-1927)

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  • Yael Natalia Tejero Yosovitch UBA – UNAJ

Keywords:

experience, revolution, narrative

Abstract

The articles “Experience and Poverty” (1933) and “The Storyteller” (1936), by German philosopher Walter Benjamin, support the hypothesis that, at the end of World War I, the faculty of transmitting experience through narration was being retracted. This loss could be linked to a combination of paradigm shifts about the experience of time, related to the industrialization of human praxis. The narration scene loses its practical, moral and pedagogical sense. On the other hand, with the social catastrophe (evidenced in the War) narration ability diminishes even more. The purpose of this article is to analyze Walter Benjamin’s text Moscow Diary (1926-1927), a notebook about his stay in the Russian capital, as a laboratory of the concept of experience that he would later develop.

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How to Cite

Yosovitch, Y. N. T. (2019). A stranger in Moscow. El problema de la experiencia en Diario de Moscú de Walter Benjamin (1926-1927). Cuadernos Del Sur Letras, (44/45), 237–252. Retrieved from https://revistas.uns.edu.ar/csl/article/view/1440

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