Vertigo
Author(s): W. G. Sebald
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.
Product Information
W.G. Sebald is the the author of "The Emigrants" which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.258
- : May 2002
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 263
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : W. G. Sebald