Correction
Correction
paperback | English
Published:
6 March, 2003
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Description
'‘One of the darkest and funniest writers... A must read for everybody’ Karl Ove Knausgaard
After a severe illness, the unnamed narrator of Correction returns to Austria to sift through the writings of his childhood friend, Roithamer - a brilliant but tormented scientist. The self-exiled son of a wealthy family, Roithamer dedicates his unexpected inheritance to an impossible vision: constructing a perfect Cone in the remote Kobernausser forest. His pursuit of perfection spirals into obsession, pushing him toward inevitable tragedy.
Thomas Bernhard’s masterwork of precision and intensity, Correction is a haunting meditation on genius, madness, and the cost of human intellect.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099442547 |
| ISBN10 | 009944254X |
| Number Of Pages | 256 |
| Item Weight | 182 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 197 x 15 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty * The Nation *
If against its own vision Correction offers us only a Teutonic injunction to take courage, we must do so from Bernhard's own example, from his determination to look more steadily than any who have come before into the perishing of the soul * Chicago Tribune *
Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern literature -- George Steiner * Times Literary Supplement *
Author's Bio
Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has written a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.