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Hoeller's Garret

After a mild pulmonary infection, tended too little and too late, had suddenly turned into a severe pneumonia that took its toll of my entire body and laid me up for at least three months at nearby Wels, which has a hospital renowned in the field of so-called internal medicine, I accepted an invitation from Hoeller, a so-called taxidermist in the Aurach valley, not for the end of October, as the doctors urged, but for early in October, as I insisted, and then went on my own so-called responsibility straight to the Aurach valley and to Hoeller's house, without even a detour to visit my parents in Stocket, straight into the so-called Hoeller garret, to begin sifting and perhaps even arranging the literary remains of my friend, who was also a friend of the taxidermist Hoeller, Roithamer, after Roithamer's suicide, I went to work sifting and sorting the papers he had willed to me, consisting of thousand of slips covered with Roithamer's handwriting plus a bulky manuscript entitled "About Altensam and everything connected with Altensam, with special attention to the Cone."

Correction
THOMAS BERNHARD



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
SOPHIE WILKINS

ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK 1979

For Carol Brown Janeway, heroic editor,
and Patrick O' Brien, M.D., companion in furor Bernhardiensis,
to whom this translation is indebted for invaluable attentions and moral support.
S. W.

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc.

Copyright 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.


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Distributed by Random house, Inc., New York. Originally published in Germany as Korrektur by Suhrkamp Verlag, Fraankfurt. Copyright 1975 by Suhrkamp Verlag.

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First American Edition

A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.