Distant Sound Pa

A composer who has already given up composing'”because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres!'”the man becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures as he tries to locate the source of the sound that consumes him . . . and instead finds the root cause of all his failures.

Louis-Ferdinand CTline (1894û1961) changed French fiction permanently when he first exploded onto the literary scene in 1932 with Journey to the End of the Night and again in 1936 with Death on the Installment Plan. His vast and liberating influence on American writers can be seen in the works of Kerouac, Burroughs, Roth, and Vonnegut, among others. In 1993, Dalkey Archive published his previously untranslated London Bridge and has since made available his novels North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, and Castle to