Correction
Correction
Correction
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Description
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"Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent in its vocabulary, but sinuous and formidably dense in its phrasing. This prose enacts the essential motif of the novel: the notion that every 'correction' is also a negation . . . . The remarkable point is the extent to which the ascetic compactness of Bernhard's style turns these abstractions into a sensory presence . . . . [Bernhard's] connections, at once developmental and contrastive, with the great 'Austrian' constellation of Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Musil and Broch become ever clearer."--George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement "Correction is something exceedingly rare among novels of recent years: a paradigm of consciousness and not simply a product . . . . Bernhard has said that 'the art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable, ' and his novel joins that small group of literary works which nobly help us to do that."--Richard Gilman, The Nation "It is high time that we keep Bernhard firmly in our mind, as European readers have been doing for many years now."--Peter Demetz, Christian Science Monitor
About the Author
About the Author
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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty."
--The Nation "As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision."
--The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent."
--Times Literary Supplement (London) "Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants."
--John Edgar Wideman, O, The Oprah Magazine
--The Nation "As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision."
--The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent."
--Times Literary Supplement (London) "Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants."
--John Edgar Wideman, O, The Oprah Magazine
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub date:
2010-03-09
Length:
288 pages
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