Correction by Bernhard, Thomas

Correction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400077601)

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Format: Paperback
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Correction by Bernhard, Thomas

Correction

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Correction by Bernhard, Thomas

Correction

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Format: Paperback
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The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to "the Cone," an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces together--literally, from thousands of slips of papers and one troubling manuscript--the puzzle of Rotheimer's breakdown, what emerges is the story of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul.

Considered by many critics to be Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece, Correction is a cunningly crafted and unforgettable meditation on the tension between the desire for perfection and the knowledge that it is unattainable.

Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 1400077605
ISBN-13: 9781400077601
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.26w x 0.68d
By Thomas Bernhard
By Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1957 he began a second career, as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he has become one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989.

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