{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea","title":"Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51306127229216,"sku":"9781685890841","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781685890841.jpg?v=1772771098","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}