{"product_id":"vertigo-by-w-g-sebald","title":"'Vertigo' by W. G. Sebald","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"596\"\u003eThis is early Sebald, though already fully recognisable: hybrid prose that moves between travel narrative, memoir, fiction, history, photographs, and archival disturbance until all of them begin to infect one another.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"596\"\u003eThe four pieces orbit Stendhal, Kafka, Italy, exile, memory, and the strange mechanics of perception itself. Rather than offering plot in the ordinary sense, \u003cem data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"460\"\u003eVertigo\u003c\/em\u003e accumulates unease, coincidence, place, and historical afterimage. It’s a book about movement that somehow keeps turning into haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"677\"\u003eVertigo\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the books where his whole method becomes visible: the grainy inserted images, the drift between documented and imagined material, the sense that European history is always rising through the floorboards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003eFor readers who like him, this is foundational. For readers new to him, it is slightly more oblique than \u003cem data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1018\"\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem data-start=\"1022\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/em\u003e, but still very much a real shelf title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003eA first edition, ex-library copy (as seen by sticker), clean inside. In near fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259654139987,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-20T141811.716.png?v=1773976710","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/vertigo-by-w-g-sebald","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}