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Can I read Vértigo on EtoBox?
Vértigo by Winfried Georg Sebald is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vértigo about?
"An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is our guide on a hair-raising journey across Europe and into the past. Vertigo is a book in four parts. The opening section is devoted to Stendhal's memories of joining Napoleon's army as a very young man just when it invaded Italy. The second section centers on Casanova's horrible imprisonment in Venice. The third part follows Kafka's tribulations in Italy; and the fourth part chronicles, in an intensely moving fashion, Sebald's own return to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. Everywhere he encounters self-alienation and the unreliability of memory: "what it is that undoes a writer.""--BOOK JACKET.
Who reads Vértigo?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Winfried Georg Sebald
- Publisher
- Debate Editorial
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- ES
- ISBN
- 9788483064733
- Category
- nonfiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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