Vertigo
by Sebald, W. G., (Winfried Georg)
Narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is 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, 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
Narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is 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, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
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- Publication Date:2001, 2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions Pub
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001, 2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:263 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0811214303, 9780811214308, 0811214850, 9780811214858
- oclc:ocm52363198
- 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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