Bernhard, an Austrian like Handke, is nearly 50 years old and for some time has been recognized in the German-speaking world as an extraordinary, if hard to classify, new fictional voice. Three of his novels have been published in the United States (several of his plays are in the process of being translated) and they have been almost totally ignored. The newest of his novels to be published here, his most important work up to the time of its appearance in Germany (1974), came out months ago with not even a mention in The New York Times Book Review or The New York Review of Books and, with the exception of an admiring and intelligent piece by Betty Falkenburg [see excerpt above] in the current Partisan Review, only scattered notices in a few small literary journals. This is in spite of the fact that this book, Correction (Korrektur), is astonishingly...