![]() The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. One reason for this phenomenon is obvious: experience has real life is wisdom. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences. ![]() More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. It teaches us that the art of storytelling is coming to an end. This distance and this angle of vision are prescribed for us by an experience which we may have almost every day. Viewed from a certain distance, the great, simple outlines which define the storyteller stand out in him, or rather, they become visible in him, just as in a rock a human head or an animals body may appear to an observer at the proper distance and angle of vision. To present someone like Leskov as a storyteller does not mean bringing him closer to us but, rather, increasing our distance from him. He has already become something remote from us and something that is getting even more distant. Familiar though his name may be to us, the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. ![]()
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