Correction (Phoenix Fiction) - Softcover
"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
"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
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"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)
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"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)
'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
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0226043932
- ISBN 13 9780226043937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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