Perfectly titled, Vertigo –W.G. Sebald’s marvelous first novel — is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling.
An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and — most perilously — memories.
Author: W. G. Sebald
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/08/2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780811226165
Language: English
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