Cass Chloupek's Reviews > Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

I understand that this a collection of literary fables, but I could not make heads or tales of it at all. I think often times with these types of books authors cover there lack of articulation through characterization of the book as literary. When I’m reality, it is not asking too much as a reader that a story have some flow and a through line. And in a collection of essays or stories, there ought o me a consistent theme or idea or exploration otherwise what would be the purpose of including a bunch of random disjointed stories together. Your writing is not any better and your not more intellectual because you purposefully write a story in a convoluted way. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the author is trying to say or what I am supposed to glean from any of these almost stream of consciousness stories. Not for me, not a fan.