Correction (novel)

Correction is a 1975 published novel of Thomas Bernhard. The focus is on the estate of a man who committed suicide - this is to " sift and organize " a friend.

Content

Despite the scale of the novel, there is little action. Leaves A nameless narrator, although he is still a little weak, the hospital, to devote himself to the estate of his friend Roithamer. This has committed suicide after he has a larger work on Altensam, his hated hometown, written and constantly corrected until almost nothing was left. This, as well as some notes Roithamer is the narrator now read and organize. But he quartered at a mutual friend, Höller, a. In the attic - where Roithamer his time has often worked and stayed in - he finally goes to work. Instead, as was initially intended to devote the main work, he reads through the notes and remembers the basis of which even at the time together. In the notes is mostly about the major project Roithamer: the construction of a cone- shaped building. This design was ridiculed by many and considered impossible, yet presented Roithamer the cone finished and gave it to his sister, whom he loved more than anything. However, these died when pulling into the cone in a moment of greatest happiness. From then on Roithamer began with the constant revisions of his work, until he realized that there is only one final and completely correct Correction: suicide.

Motto

The novel is a motto prefixed, in which it is the words of the main character himself: " For stable support of a body, it is necessary that it has at least three contact points that do not lie in a straight line, so Roithamer. "

Style

The entire novel is divided into two parts: " arrange tables and" " The garret " and. Apart from this there are no paragraphs. Often, the opposites attract over several pages, with leaps of thought are not uncommon. It is often unclear who is speaking. Although it is presented as if it were the records Roithamer, yet it is sometimes obvious that the narrator his own thoughts with installs, without identifying it.