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Correction

Thomas Bernhard · 1975 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

Roithamer, an Austrian scientist teaching at Cambridge, spends six years building a habitable cone for his sister at the exact centre of the Kobernausser forest, then leaves thousands of pages behind about it. The narrator moves into the garret where the work was done and begins to sort the papers, whose author corrected them, then corrected the correction. Ludwig Wittgenstein, who designed a house for his own sister, stands behind the figure.

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Attributes

Genre
Psychological
Theme
ObsessionArt & CreationDeath & MortalityIsolation & Alienation
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
CreatorThe DoubleShadow
Plot structure
Frame NarrativeMeditationCircular
Symbol / motif
The HouseThe ForestThe Book / Manuscript
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
ModernistTragicElegiac
Culture / tradition
German

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