Abstract

The text proposes a theoretical perspective that draws upon two well-known essays by Walter Benjamin, Über die Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen and Der Erzähler, discussing them critically and recognizing the preconditions for a metaphysical conceptualization of literature. Therefore, the article attempts to rethink certain themes dear to the Berlin philosopher and belonging to the Hebrew and Christian lexicon, so as to understand literature as the creature’s metaphysical drive for redemption and its communication with God. The Narrator thus becomes the creature’s mouthpiece and intercessor, aspiring to redemption and salvation through the literary work, in an eminently messianic and mystical sense.