Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea (Rose C. D.)(Paperback)

"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 A collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form ... Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortzar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales. 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. A journalist's interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. Two Russian brothers, one blind and one deaf,
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