Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

“A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” — Michael Dirda, The Washington Post<BR><BR>A collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form …<BR><BR>Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales.<BR><BR>Welcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness — the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era, or the present, or even the future.<BR><BR>- A journalist’s interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. - Two Russian brothers, one blind and one deaf, build an intricate model town during an interminable train ride across the steppe. - An annotated discography for the works of a long-lost silent film star turns into a mysterious document of obsession. - Three Russian sailors must find ways to pass the time on a freighter orphaned in a foreign port. - A forgotten composer enters a nostalgic dream-world while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport.<BR>In these 19 dreamlike tales, ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language, where image and photograph become mystically entwined, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion.<BR><BR>“Every madness is logical to its owner,” one of Rose’s characters says. And it is that line — between logic and madness — that Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea walks with such assuredness and imagination.

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