Synopsis
At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. Four stories interweave with each other to illustrate the moment that fact clashes with memory.
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Revue de presse
"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)
"Where has one heard in English a voice of such confidence and precision, so direct in its expression of feeling, yet so respectfully devoted to "the real"?" (Susan Sontag Times Literary Supplement)
"Possessed of a richness and strangeness that would put most other writers to shame. Sebald's journey into himself and his past is compelling, puzzling, unique" (The Times)
"As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell.it works triumphantly well. The fact that W.G. Sebald chooses to tease, dazzle and mystify should not blind us to the fact that he does the one thing that every novelist should do: he entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires" (Robert McCrum Observer)
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TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL HULSE
'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' Observer
What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? 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.
'One of the most original voices to have come from Europe in recent years' Paul Auster
See also: The Rings of Saturn
(Genre: fiction/travel / memoir)
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Arabia Felix
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Stacey International, UK, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1860466230
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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine +. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine +. Reprint. An Exploration of the Archaeological History of Yemen. Introduction by Tony Wilkerson. 2009 edition. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, unfaded, complete and unclipped. Looks very sharp. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are unmarked. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. Paypal accepted. N° de réf. du vendeur 015740
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Vertigo (1st edition)
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The Harvill Press, 1999
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Black boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages and nice firm binding. Small repaired tear to the fore edge of the title page. Tear to the botom of the jacket spine (1.5cm). Jacket is not price clipped. 1st UK print. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. N° de réf. du vendeur 13062
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Vertigo
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The Harvill Press, 1999
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very minimal shelf wear. No notes or highlights. N° de réf. du vendeur Abe39-12
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VERTIGO (First UK edition - first impression - clean ex-library copy of the scarcer hardcover issue)
Edité par
The Harvill Press, London, 1999
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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First UK Edition. A clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition, with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This hardcover edition was published simultaneously with a more commonly found paperback edition. The hardcover copies were aimed mainly at public lending libraries, and so are much harder to find now. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Although ex-library, this is a very clean near fine copy in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of the spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. The page block has sagged slightly at the spine due to the heavy-gauge paper used. Internally, the book is also near fine, with just the following library marks: 'Marlborough College Memorial Library' stamps crossed out in ink on the front pastedown and free endpaper, an ink code at the top of the front free endpaper, and a barcode on the rear pastedown - no other internal marks and hardly any signs of handling. The pages are clean and unmarked. No creasing or tears - the book feels largely unread. No foxing. Spine tight with no reading lean. ***In a near fine monochrome illustrated dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £16.99 on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just very rubbing to the edges. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. The dustwrapper has been very well preserved by the original library jacket - now replaced with a thin (removable) protective sleeve. ***217mm x155mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A really clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published in hardcover - far fewer copies were printed in this format compared with the simultaneous paperback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 8935
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Vertigo
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The Harvill Press, 1999
ISBN 10 : 1860466230
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition first impression in fine condition, no markings, pages clean, binding firm, jacket in removable protective sleeve. please see pics for reference. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1776438971486
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Vertigo
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The Harvill Press, 1999
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Etat : Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. N° de réf. du vendeur Z1-B-037-01650
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Vertigo
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Harvill Press, London, 1999
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked, with small chips at the spine head. Board spine head is bumped, and page block head is lightly foxed. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. N° de réf. du vendeur 610401
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Vertigo
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New Directions, NY, 2000
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Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. An as new copy of the first U.S. edition of this, the author's third book. Sebald was killed in a car accident almost ten years ago (at the age of 57). Considered by many to be a great writer. N° de réf. du vendeur 010243
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Vertigo
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Harvill Press, 1999
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Vendeur : Hall of Books, Shropshire, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition first printing hardback, 1999, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation - gift inscription to front endpaper dated 1999; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. N° de réf. du vendeur 220337
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Vertigo
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight rubbing to the spine ends, else as new and unread. An exceptional copy of this author's 3rd published work, this being the first English edition (originally published in German). Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. N° de réf. du vendeur 3688
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