Vertigo is a book by German author W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...

. The book functions along with Sebald's subsequent critically successful works The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn

The rings of saturn

The Rings of Saturn is a novel by W. G. Sebald and was published in English in 1998.The second novel of W. G. Sebald to be translated into English, The Rings of Saturn is the account of the narrator, also named W. G. Sebald, on a walking tour of Suffolk...

as a trilogy. In three of its four sections, Sebald weaves together travelogues featuring Stendhal

Stendhal

Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...

, Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...

and an unnamed narrator who may represent Sebald himself, with the final recounting a visit to Sebald's German hometown of "W." Although critics have found the work difficult to characterize, it has been critically well-received.

External links

• On Sebald
• Review by Loren Webster (2006)
• Review by Brigitte Frase (Salon, 2000)