Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Allen, Ira
• Ryder, Robert
• Chari, Anita

Titel

True Stories about Dogs, Walter Benjamin

Ist Teil von

• Theory & event, 2015-07, Vol.18 (3), p.N_A

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Here is what he has to say about the dog: "Consumes meat, carrion, starchy vegetable substances, no leaves, digests bones, regurgitates after grass; digests upon a stone: of Greek white, extremely corrosive. Nose damp, exceptional sense of smell; lopes along a path, running on his toes; sweats very little, lets his tongue hang out in the heat; before going to sleep, he circles his berth; in sleep, hears fairly keenly, dreams. Faithful above all else, domestic companion to the human; wags tail at the master's approach, avoids blows; when the master walks, he runs ahead, looking all around at crossings; teachable, finds what is lost, patrols a beat at night, announces anyone who nears, watches over goods, fends offcattle from the fields, keeps running animals together, guards cattle and sheep from wild beasts, holds lions at bay, rustles up game, points ducks, sneaks up to spring on the catch, fetches the hunter's kill without nibbling on it, pulls the spit along in France, in Siberia the wagons. Unlike most of his radio typescripts, where he writes out quotations in full in the manner so familiar to readers of The Arcades Project, Benjamin's typescript for "True Stories about Dogs" bears only the handwritten citations "Reklam" and "Masken" (alongside page numbers and indications regarding length and scope of the quotation) at the points where he means to quote.