That Voice - Tapa blanda

Fiction. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. A story of death and disintegration in a French village in which nothing disappears or is lost. "The primary aim was to capture a voice," Pinget writes. THAT VOICE is hard to hear, indistinct, made up of many voices going back over generations yet it is also "the same from beginning to end." "THAT VOICE is a text containing not only numerous sentences which fade into a series of periods, but also characters and events which have as little stability as wind-swept cumulus clouds.... One listens to the tones; one's mind drifts along with the narrating voice that combines and recombines memories and imaginings"—International Fiction Review.

Robert Pinget was born in 1920 in Geneva. His first collection of stories, Between Fantoine and Agapa, was pubished in 1951. Pinget has written more than 30 books: novels, plays, and "notebooks." His last book, Taches d'Encre came out in 1997, the year he died.