Vertigo

Author: W. G. Sebald

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780099448891
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : 0.258
  • : May 2002
  • : 198mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 14.99
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  • : W. G. Sebald
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
  • : 833/.914
  • : good
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  • : 263
  • : Travel writing; Modern fiction
  • : 70 illustrations
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Barcode 9780099448891
9780099448891

Description

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.

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W.G. Sebald is the the author of "The Emigrants" which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal.

Author description

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.