Vertigo by W. G. Sebald (2000, Paperback) 
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald (2000, Paperback)
Author: W. G. Sebald
Publisher: Harvill Pr
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1860467342
ISBN-13: 9781860467349
Product ID: EPID2708039
Description: Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
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Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.

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Publication Date:2000-07-01

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"This extraordinary, unclassifiable book is a log of Sebald's inner life....Sebald is a thrilling, original writer. He makes narration a state of investigative bliss. His narrative doesn't just tell stories; it offers itself as a model of consciousness...."
Orozco

"[E]ven more than the two succeeding books, this is a self-portrait of the mind: a restless, chronically dissatisfied mind; a harrowed mind; a mind prone to hallucinations....What anchors the unstable consciousness of the narrator is the spaciousness and acuity of the details."
Times Literary Supplement - Susan Sontag (02/25/2000)

"VERTIGO likes to keep us guessing; we are shepherded through incidents that operate...on rules that we struggle to comprehend....Having read the book two or three times, I still can't decide on the tone of [some] events; they feel too perilous for a sacrament, yet too inconclusive to be a plot. What I do know is that, even though some of Sebald's sentences need to be solved as if you were cracking a case, the task of detection never sinks into a hardship. On the contrary, it's a pleasure."
New Yorker - Anthony Lane (05/29/2000)

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