Thomas Bernhard: Correction, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Correction
Buch
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- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 12/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099442547
- Item number:
- 5065553
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2003
- Weight:
- 179 g
- Format:
- 202 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 19 mm
- Release date:
- 4.12.2025
- Series:
- Vintage Classics
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
''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.
Biography
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in rightwing, Catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen, he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.
Thomas Bernhard
Correction
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