VERTIGO - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
Sebald, W. G. (Translated by Michael Hulse)
Language: English
Published by New York City, NY: New Directions, 2000, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 110.00
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1st Printing. 263 pages. Published in 2000. The author's debut novel. One of W. G. Sebald's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo" in Michael Hulse's acclaimed English translation. A "spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history, and travel writing". The most celebrated of the four narratives is devoted to Kafka (Stendhal and Casanova also appear). The great German expatriate writer conflated, transformed, and transcended various literary genres to create his one-of-a-kind novels. In addition, Sebald's innovative and brilliant insertion of ambiguous photographs throughout the text, his application of Roland Barthes' "photograph-as-punctuation" mandate, is first deployed here. "So stunning and strange, like a dream you want to last forever" (The New York Times). Sebald was not a prolific author, but each of his four novels is a masterpiece. W. G. Sebald's soaring literary career was abruptly cut short by his violent death in a car accident in 2001, a premature and tragic loss to world literature. An absolute "must-have" title for W. G. Sebald collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and despite its imperfection (a tiny pinch on a bottom board corner, but it's there) is still in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER W. G. SEBALD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0811214303.…
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- Title
- VERTIGO - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
- Author
- Sebald, W. G. (Translated by Michael Hulse)
- Publisher
- New York City, NY: New Directions, 2000
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811214303
- ISBN 13
- 9780811214308
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time.
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald―the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness―takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts―Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever.""Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.
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