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Vertigo

by W.G. Sebald

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A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund 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, ...

First published: 1990 168 pages ISBN: 9780811221313
Category
Literature
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
5
Language
eng
Subjects
FictionMemoryGerman Autobiographical fictionTranslations into EnglishAlienation (Social psychology)European AuthorsFiction, generalEurope, fictionFiction, biographical

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