Abstract
In his 1930's brief text, The Storyteller, Walter Benjamin states that the art of storytelling is gone due to a loss of the experience-sharing capacity. Putting Leskov's stories as an example, he tries not to approximate us to the past, but to deepen the distance between modernity and the storytellers' world.
The article tries to examine the connection between storytelling, tradition, orality, and cumulative experience characteristic for a society where crafts are the predominant way of production. Then, based on Ortega y Gasset's theory of technology, it analyses the rupture brought by technology par excellence of industrial age.
Finally, linking these thesis with other Benjamin's writings (Experience and Poverty, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) the article pursues the question of the future of sharing human experience by means of a narrative literary work.