SEBALD, W.G. [trans. Michael Hulse] Vertigo. London: Harvill Press. 1999.
8vo. Original black boards with publishers device and title in gilt along spine; illustrated grey dust cover with photograph of eye and on rear board photograph of author; [8], 3-263, [3]; fine copy.
First edition, rare hardcover.
Merging stories of Stendhal's unrequited love, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, and the narrator's own personal journeying, Vertigo was Sebald's first novel (and third to appear in English). "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).
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