Vertigo - Couverture souple

Sebald, W.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1860467342 ISBN 13 : 9781860467349

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 2000

Synopsis

At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Vertigo explores this theme through four stories and four journeys. With Stendhal we travel through the unreliable and painful recollections of an inglorious military career. With Kafka we travel to Italy and an unsuccessful bid to regain physical and mental well-being. Through these journeys and two by the unnamed narrator one to Bavaria to revisit the places shaped by childhood memories - Sebald examines the unreliability of memory, the intensity of childhood experience and the dizzying unknowability of the past. Using Sebald s own mixture of personal narrative, investigation, report, quotation (both textual and pictorial) and meditation, Vertigo is a wonderful journey into the human mind and its methods of mediating reality and the past.

A propos du livre

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)

Quatrième de couverture

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)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860467342
• ISBN 13: 9781860467349
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible