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Oct 22, 2024 10:26 PM

Author:Thomas Bernhard

Correction

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul.

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

A truly original new voice in fiction. Her bleakly poetic first novel has an atmosphere all of its own: melancholy and profound yet shot through with the urgency of life and love

—— Shena Mackay

was hard to put down. Love, idealism, corruption and insanity in the Danish court of the Enlightenment: the world he draws is so complete, it s a very absorbing read.

—— Rachel Seiffert, Daily Telegraph

One of the most unusual and powerful fictional works of modern times.

—— New York Newsday
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