The Motley Stones

This is an interesting collection from NYRB. They had already released one of the short stories "Rock Crystal" on its own as novella. It's here but with a different translation. That's one of my favorite short stories so I'm going to review it next week as an entry itself. What is here in The Motely Stones is pretty good. I already read "Limestone" about a priest which was ok. I felt the same way about the story Rock Milk too. I liked the beginning of "Rock Milk" when you meet the family more than the war elements that came later. "Granite" is pretty good. It's about two children who survive a plague and how they meet later in adulthood. Then there's "Cat-Silver" about a wild girl who becomes friends with a family and eventually saves one of them from a fire. I really like the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter. His work is still being translated today which is all very nice but he should be just as recognized as the people he influenced like Nietzsche and Thomas Mann. He had a vivid imagination. He's apparently has a following in Germany but not to the USA for some reason.