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Title: Vertigo
Author: W G Sebald
ISBN: 9780811214858
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that swimming of the head, as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so stunning and strange, as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is like a dream you want to last forever.
Author: W G Sebald
ISBN: 9780811214858
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that swimming of the head, as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so stunning and strange, as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is like a dream you want to last forever.
