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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
Publisher Description: <em>Vertigo</em>, 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 <em>The Emigrants</em> and <em>The Rings of Saturn</em>. 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 <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> declared about <em>The Emigrants</em>, 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
Publisher Description: <em>Vertigo</em>, 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 <em>The Emigrants</em> and <em>The Rings of Saturn</em>. 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 <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> declared about <em>The Emigrants</em>, that it is like a dream you want to last forever.
