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Overview
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.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811226165
- ISBN-10: 0811226166
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: November 2016
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 272
