1944年生於德國南部阿爾高伊(Allgäu)的當代德語作家以及英國East Anglia大學德語文學教授瑟巴爾特(W. G. Sebald)，2001年死於車禍。他的著作先受到英語區的文壇及學術界之矚目，90年代在德語區國家因其作品中的跨文類藝術及視覺文化評論議題，才開始享有相當的知名度。瑟巴爾特作品涵蓋文學、藝術、歷史、大自然破壞等生態倫理之論述。作品之中心思想架構在憂鬱議題，以此呈現歷史創傷及記憶。本文以文本分析試著論述瑟巴爾特1990年的作品《暈眩，感觸》，來看歷史記憶以及憂鬱如何呈現，瑟巴爾特如何以文本中的黑白插圖來追尋歷史遺跡，作品中的視覺圖示功能又如何展現；如何透過敘述者／旅遊者思考跨越時空的歷史，評述歐洲的宗教藝術；如何以記憶喚起憂鬱、感觸結合歷史、文化，他如何以其自傳體的創作探討、檢視漂泊異鄉的個體記憶與歷史事實的真相。
The contemporary German writer W.G. Sebald and Professor of German Literature at the East Anglia University in England was killed in an automobile accident in 2001. He was widely known in the German-speaking world for his genre-crossing works of creative prose as well as for his literary criticism. Not long after his fictional work Schwindel. Gefühle was published in 1990, Sebald had become popular in the literary world and his works met with nearly universal acclaim. The topics of his fiction are concerned mostly with the trauma of history, the remnant of the past, migration, and melancholy in the restless and mourning mind of a wandering individual.This study is an attempt to first introduce Sebald's importance as a writer, the theme in his works. Secondly, to focus the interpretation on his work: Schwindel. Gefühle. Thirdly, to trace the intention of Sebald's use of pictorial illustrations, and, through the geographical space afforded by travel, to view the narrator's 'journey of mind'. The purpose of my study is also to discover how Sebald combines biographical recollections with his own memory and experiences to build a mood of portentous sadness and evoke a sense of morality.