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  • Published: 30 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448182152
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Correction



Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece - Correction, a surreal tale of human genius and obsession - reissued into Vintage Classics to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

'‘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.

  • Published: 30 September 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448182152
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

Thomas Bernhard

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.

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