Vertigo (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

[A] haunting masterpiece from W. G. Sebald.

[An] exquisitely composed work.

Think of W. G. Sebald as memory's Einstein.--Richard Eder

For all its dark contents and burden of undeclared grief, Vertigo is dizzyingly light and transparent. --Benjamin Kunkel

Think of W. G. Sebald as memory's Einstein. --Richard Eder

One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed.--Anita Brookner

[Sebald's writing] is very beautiful, and its strangeness is what is beautiful. This German who has lived in England for thirty years is one of the most exciting, and most mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers.--James Wood

[A]n intriguing peregrination through time, memory, displacement...provides a first look at the author whose reputation has only continued to grow.--Bondo Wyszpolski

[A]n intensely personal work, showing us Sebald's genesis as a writer, and is constantly stimulating.--Sebastian Shakespeare

[D]iverts and surprises at every turn, and bears the unmistakable stamp of maturity and erudition.--Philip Landon

A first-person narrative describes a journey from Italy during Napoleon's invasion to a Bavarian village, drawing in the memories of notable persons such as Franz Kafka and Casanova.