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Vertigo
ISBN/GTIN

Vertigo

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF16.90

Description

Schwindelartige Gefühle der Irritation - in den vier durch wiederkehrende Motive und literarische Anspielungen kunstvoll miteinander verwobenen, geheimnisvollen Geschichten überkommen sie den Erzähler immer dann, wenn sich zwischen Erinnerung und Wirklichkeit eine bedrohliche Kluft auftut. Neben dem französischen Romancier Henri Beyle alias Stendhal ist es vor allem Franz Kafka, dem sich der Autor über die literarische Bewunderung hinaus verbunden fühlt und dessen ruheloser, lebendigtoter Jäger Gracchus durch alle vier Geschichten geistert. Es ist die Melancholie, die Sebald an diesen beiden Autoren interessiert und seinen eigenen Erfahrungen gegenüberstellt, denn wie der Erzähler selbst wurden auch Stendhal und Kafka von Eingebungen getrieben, von Träumen, Ahnungen und - "Schwindelgefühlen" geplagt.
'Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed' Anita Brookner, Spectator

What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of Sebald's compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself.

'As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell... [Sebald] entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires' Robert McCrum, Observer
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-944889-1
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date07/11/2002
Pages272 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 16 mm
Weight196 g
IllustrationsFarb., s/w. Abb.
Article no.2309916
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9849978
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Sebald, W.G.
W G Sebald (Author)
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.

Michael Hulse and Simon Rae (Translators)
Michael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. He is based in Warwick. Simon Rae is a playwright , novelist and broadcaster (he presented Radio 4's 'Poetry Please' for several years). He lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Both Michael Hulse and Simon Rae are published poets and winners of the National Poetry Competition.