Abstract

YUTZIS, Daniela. El don de narrar: el concepto de narración en Walter Benjamin y en los textos jasídicos. Tópicos [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.168-187. ISSN 1666-485X.

The purpose of this paper is to delineate those central concepts of the narrative in Walter Benjamin that unfold in the readings of the stories and tales that are part of the central corpus of the Hasidic movement. For this, the conception of the experience, the use of the words and the allusions of the narrator are analyzed at that moment in which, through the advice, the teacher (the righteous, the Tzadik) transmits wisdom. The advice is not a closed answer or an exclusive knowledge about the metaphysical aspects, but it is –first of all– the transmission of the aspect of unification of the world, where the daily reveals its inexplicable character and the transcendental – in a fleeting moment– approaches to life itself. What the Hasidic master narrates happens between heaven and earth, between practical and mystical life. The narrative does not abbreviate: it unfolds, realizes the unfinished, of the requirement of the task of man in the world, of the patient, insistent work, of the construction of a craft that only the conviction –that beyond the mere and pure intellect– and the love of the letter of the sacred text can revive.

Keywords : narration; Chasidism; wisdom; words; allusions.

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