- Fiction, Memory, German Autobiographical fiction, Translations into English
"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.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- W. G. Sebald, Carmen Gómez García
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, New Directions Pub., Editorial Anagrama
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, tur
- ISBN
- 9781446418031
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Winfried Georg Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In a 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuściński and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._Sebald
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