Vertigo

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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What connects Stendhal’s unrequited love, Kafka’s travels, a sequence of murders, the Great Fire of London and a closed pizzeria in Verona? In Vertigo, W. G. Sebald moves through Italy, Austria, England and memory itself, blending fiction, travel writing, biography and historical reflection. The narrator follows traces left by artists, cities, illnesses, dreams and coincidences, while recollection grows unstable and the past returns with ghostly insistence. This is a key work of European literary fiction. Sebald’s prose creates a spell of melancholy and unease, turning travel into a search for the hidden patterns that disturb ordinary life. ‘Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed’ Anita Brookner, Spectator ‘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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-11-07
Mått130 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt196 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagVintage Publishing
ISBN9780099448891

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W G Sebald (Author) W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, 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.Michael Hulse and Simon Rae (Translators) Michael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. He is based in Warwick. Simon Rae is a playwright , novelist and broadcaster (he presented Radio 4's 'Poetry Please' for several years). He lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Both Michael Hulse and Simon Rae are published poets and winners of the National Poetry Competition.