Title: Vertigo
Description: "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. The second section centers on Casanova's horrible imprisonment in Venice.

The third part follows Kafka's tribulations in Italy; and the fourth part chronicles, in an intensely moving fashion, Sebald's own return to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. Everywhere he encounters self-alienation and the unreliability of memory: "what it is that undoes a writer.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Memory, German Autobiographical fiction, Translations into English, Alienation (Social psychology), European Authors, Fiction, general, Europe, fiction, Fiction, biographical
People: Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Stendhal (1783-1842)