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Vertigo
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At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme.
Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?
Weight | 0.191000 |
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Author | W.G. Sebald |
Availability | IP |
Department | Travel Writing |
Format | Unknown |
ISBN | 9780099448891 |
Pages | 272 |
Published | 07/11/2002 |
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Section | Travel Writing: General |
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