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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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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Near Fine. New Directions, New York 7th trade paperback printing Condition: Near fine, very light edge an corner wearVertigo, W G Sebald's first novel is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming Sebald-the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness-takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in VertigoHere in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts-Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head, " as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange, " as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever"
