Vertigo by W.G. Sebald (English) Paperback Book

Description: Vertigo by W.G. Sebald At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebalds novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A new, modern look for Sebalds classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our most pioneering and cherished writersNothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of ones regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed Anita Brookner, SpectatorWhat could possibly connect Stendhals unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of Sebalds compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself.As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell... Sebald entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires Robert McCrum, Observer Notes Highly acclaimed fiction/travelogue. New to Vintage. Back Cover TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL HULSE As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell... [Sebald] entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires Observer What could possibly connect Stendhals unrequited love, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. One of the most original voices to have come from Europe in recent years Paul Auster See also: The Rings of Saturn (Genre: fiction/travel / memoir) Author Biography W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, 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. Review Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of ones regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed * Spectator *Where has one heard in English a voice of such confidence and precision, so direct in its expression of feeling, yet so respectfully devoted to "the real"? * Times Literary Supplement *Possessed of a richness and strangeness that would put most other writers to shame. Sebalds journey into himself and his past is compelling, puzzling, unique * The Times *As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell.it works triumphantly well. The fact that W.G. Sebald chooses to tease, dazzle and mystify should not blind us to the fact that he does the one thing that every novelist should do: he entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires * Observer * Promotional One of the most original voices to have come from Europe in recent years Paul Auster Review Text Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of ones regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed Review Quote Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of ones regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed Promotional "Headline" A new, modern look for Sebalds classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our most pioneering and cherished writers Details ISBN0099448890 Author W.G. Sebald Pages 272 Year 2002 ISBN-10 0099448890 ISBN-13 9780099448891 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from German DEWEY 833.914 Media Book Language English Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Classics Publication Date 2002-11-07 Illustrations 70 UK Release Date 2002-11-07 AU Release Date 2002-11-07 NZ Release Date 2002-11-07 Alternative 9781446418031 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1124953;

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