Walter Benjamin Quote

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"历史性地表达过去并不意味着以它原来的样子认知它"

Translations

“The true picture of the past flits by ”

Walter Benjamin

“The storyteller's task is to name what is lost”

“Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell ”

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out ”

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