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Correction

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Author: Bernhard, Thomas
Translator: Wilkins, Sophie
Series title:Phoenix Fiction Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-04393-7
Publication Date:Jan 1990
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.00USD $16.00
Book Description:

"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...
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Book Details
Pages:280
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.31 x 8.06 x 0.68 Inches
Book Weight:0.67 Pounds
Author Biography
Bernhard, Thomas (Author)
Thomas Bernhard was born to Austrian parents in Holland and reared by his mother in the vicinity of Salzburg. His temperament and erratic health created difficulties for him as he grew up in a society governed by National Socialists.

Bernhard found the alpine landscapes of his native Austria far more harsh than lyrical. The isolation of the characters in his novels is only slightly mitigated by friendship, generally only between men, and never by love. Yet many readers feel this lack of sentimentality gives Bernhard's work an epic power.

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