{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea-paperback","title":"Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. D. Rose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\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 Cort痙ar 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\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. \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eC.D. ROSE was born in the north of England and has lived in a number of countries, including Italy, France and the USA. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD from Edge Hill University. Though he currently lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, he is at home anywhere there are dark bars, dusty libraries, and good second-hand bookshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764622164256,"sku":"9781685890841","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3bd9b2a852060a7ca8dedbc62c195461.webp?v=1780253781","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-stares-at-the-sea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}