The paper examines the so-called death of the subject which can be found in the German  metafiction of 1960-1990. It proposes this subgenre to be the most revealing format for the Modern Self revision. Metafiction protagonist is usually an artist or a thinker. The narration is displaced by the self -reflection of a writing person. Author focuses on the character’s self-consciousness, and the metafiction explores various forms of a self-consciousness narration (e. g. a diary, notes, selected streams of consciousness, etc.). Application of this ideas to Thomas Bernhard’s works in general and to the close reading of his novel “Correction” (1975) is held. In the novel under scrutiny such features of metafiction as  an ambivalence of Self and Other, problematization of writing, representation of art as life and life as art are abundant and explicit. The study demonstrates that German metafiction of 1960–1990 is still connected with the modernist literature and continues to explore the semantics “depth”, potency for catharsis, and development of Romantic idea of artist as genius.