Title: Vertigo /
Authors: Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001; Hulse, Michael, 1955-; New Directions Publishing.
Year: 2016
Subjects: Stendhal, Fiction.; Kafka, Franz, Fiction.; Kafka, Franz,; Stendhal,; Memory Fiction; Autobiographical fiction, German.; Autobiographical fiction, German; Memory
Abstract: A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. In four dizzying sections, Sebald, one of the most acclaimed European writers of our time, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
Contents: Beyle, or Love is a madness most discreet -- All'estero -- Dr K. takes the waters at Riva -- Il ritorno in patria.