Vertigo

Author: W.G. Sebald 

Translator: Michael Hulse

Publisher: New Directions (2016)

Perfectly titled, Vertigo―W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel―is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling.

An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and―most perilously―memories.