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The Distant Sound
Gert Jonke
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Description for The Distant Sound
Paperback. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - 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.
A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564785268
SKU
V9781564785268
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99-15
About Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke is counted among Austria's most important authors and dramatists. Among other prizes, he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Erich Fried Prize, and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature. He died in 2009 at the age of 62. Jean M. Snook lives with her husband on the easternmost tip of North America, the Avalon Peninsula on the ... Read more
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