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Title	:	Vertigo
Author	:	W.G. Sebald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 263 pages
Published	:	October 18th 2001 by New Directions Publishing (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Cultural. Germany. Literature. Novels

Vertigo

W.G. Sebald

Paperback | Pages: 263 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 3778 Users | 303 Reviews

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Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald—the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness—takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo.

Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts—Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."

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Original Title:	Schwindel. Gefühle
ISBN:	0811214850 (ISBN13: 9780811214858)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Germany Italy

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Hmm......this is a tough one, and still don't know just quite what to make of it. I Could sit on it for 24 hours and reach a different conclusion, but while it's fresh in my mind I settle for now. And speakings of minds, Sebald going by this certainly had an imaginative one, made up of fragmented memories from his youth, and historical meditation swirled with fantastical events from an overview of the life of Stendhal in 19th century Italy . The positives from Vertigo far outweigh the negatives,

I find the wonderful German writer W.G. Sebald so difficult to review that my treatment of his second novel, The Rings of Saturn, was no more than a long story about a trip I once made with my then partner to her home in Cornwall, during which, mostly on account of her parents, I lost my mind and my girlfriend. Im not, of course, going to go over all that again, and I couldnt even if I wanted to, for I have forgotten much of what took place; yet the disquieting thing is that what I can recall or

Throughout Vertigo, W.G. Sebald, through deceptively clear prose and photographs, creates a disorienting waking dream for his readers. The novel is divided into four sections, and while there is not a straightforward plot or clear storyline, Sebald weaves thematic connections as well as specific details revisited from different perspectives to hold the novel together. Some sections read as biographies of historical figures, while others are written from the perspective of neurotic characters,

"Una fiammata brevissima, uno scoppio, sprizzi di scintille e poi ogni cosa si spegne." Gli ingredienti sono i medesimi di Austerlitz: viaggio, memorie, letteratura, arte, architettura, Storia.L'impasto si compone di prosa elegantissima (mai artificiosa) e fotografie in bianco e nero. Fotografie come testimonianza di vite che furono. Pensieri, associazioni, parallelismi, ricordi, ricostruzioni. Pensieri evocati che non appartengono più alle persone che li hanno concepiti perché legati ad un

Vertigo is about properties of human mind and memory and the story goes as a sudden paroxysm of dizzinessover the years I had puzzled out a good deal in my own mind, but in spite of that, far from becoming clearer, things now appeared to me more incomprehensible than ever. The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not

Ψυχεδελικός περίπατος παρέα με τη μνήμη και τη λήθη και ξάφνου μπροστά μας εμφανίζεται μια μεγάλη αγάπη που δεν θα καταπιεί ποτέ η λησμονιά. Πως να μην ρίξεις όλα τα αστέρια του ουρανού σε αυτό το αίσθημα ιλίγγου και συνειδητής λογοτεχνικής μελαγχολίας;Το παράξενο γεγονός του έρωτα μας εξηγεί ο Σταντάλ και μας μεταφέρει σε ιστορικές μάχες, απέραντα πεδία πτωμάτων,πολλές ερωμένες,απογοητεύσεις,αρρώστιες και το τελευταίο ταξίδι ανάμεσα σε φαντασία και πραγματικότητα. Ενα ταξίδι που απολαμβάνουμε

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