Author

Contributions

  • Hulse, Michael, 1955- - Contributor

Publication

2000 - New Directions Pub., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99058955
  • LibraryThing51965
  • Goodreads821303

Classifications

  • DDC833/.914
  • LCCPT2681.E18 S313 2000

Description

"An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is our guide on a hair-raising journey across Europe and into the past. Vertigo is a book in four parts. The opening section is devoted to Stendhal's memories of joining Napoleon's army as a very young man just when it invaded Italy. The second section centers on Casanova's horrible imprisonment in Venice. The third part follows Kafka's tribulations in Italy; and the fourth part chronicles, in an intensely moving fashion, Sebald's own return to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. Everywhere he encounters self-alienation and the unreliability of memory: "what it is that undoes a writer.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • VertigoNew Directions Pub.2000

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