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 together the stories of Stendhal's unrequited love, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation and the narrators own personal journeying (amoungst other tales), W.G. Sebald's multifaceted masperpiece explores the unreliability of memory, a theme persistent throughout his unique work body. As Susan Sontag wrote, "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'?".

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Title: Vertigo.
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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