ID: 2690
Vertigo.
SEBALD, W.G.
Category: First Edition
Place/Publisher/Date:
London, The Harvill Press.1999.
Description:
Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. First UK edition. 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Vertigo is another of Sebalds blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and travel writing. There are four linked narratives. The first follows Stendhal as he revisits the Italian battlefields of Napoleon. This is followed by the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice and the trials of Kafka in Italy. In the final narrative the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into a quest for Sebald's own roots in southern Germany. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Price £500.00
