That Voice

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 .