Synopsis
'‘one of the darkest and funniest writers. A must read for everybody’ karl ove knausgaardafter a severe illness, the unnamed narrator of correction returns to austria to sift through the writings of his childhood friend, roithamer - a brilliant but tormented scientist. The self-exiled son of a wealthy family, roithamer dedicates his unexpected inheritance to an impossible vision: constructing a perfect cone in the remote kobernausser forest. His pursuit of perfection spirals into obsession, pushing him toward inevitable tragedy.
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