{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea","title":"Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWalter Benjamin Stares at the Sea\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eC D Rose\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781685890841\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMelville House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino's \"\u003ci\u003eIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler, \u003c\/i\u003e\" Nabokov's \"\u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\", and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.\" -- Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA journalist's interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Russian brothers, one blind and one deaf, build an intricate model town during an interminable train ride across the steppe. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn annotated discography for the works of a long-lost silent film star turns into a mysterious document of obsession. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Russian sailors must find ways to pass the time on a freighter orphaned in a foreign port. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA forgotten composer enters a nostalgic dream-world while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Every madness is logical to its owner,\" one of Rose's characters says. And it is that line -- between logic and madness -- that \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin Stares at the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e walks with such assuredness and imagination.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea | C D Rose | Paperback | 9781685890841 | New | Fiction 1580431","offer_id":50734495465730,"sku":"1580431","price":34.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81p6-g_IBmL.jpg?v=1791923325","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}