Vertigo
by Sebald, W. G., (Winfried Georg)
A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. In four dizzying sections, Sebald, one of the most acclaimed European writers of our time, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
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- Full title :Vertigo / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Michael Hulse.
Summary
A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. In four dizzying sections, Sebald, one of the most acclaimed European writers of our time, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
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- Publication Date:©2000
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions Pub
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2000
The Physical Object
- Description:263 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0811214303, 9780811214308, 0811214850, 9780811214858
- oclc:ocm42923601
- LC Classification:PT2681.E18
- Dewey Decimal:833/.914
Table of Contents
Beyle, or Love is a madness most discreet -- All'estero -- Dr K. takes the waters at Riva -- Il ritorno in patria.
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