Eric Prieto is an assistant professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"Carefully reasoned. . . . Difficult but rewarding. Highly recommended."—Choice "A well-researched book likely to appeal to both scholars and students. Prieto's style is clear and meticulous, and every key notion is explained…. [It] delivers a pertinent study of modernist literature, as well as a landmark for research on music in literature, laying a sound groundwork for analysis of other 'musical' postmodernist narratives."—Jean-Luis Pautrot, Comparative Literature "This kind of semiotic boundary crossing between music and literature is inherently metaphorical, but, as Prieto's analyses of Beckett, Leiris, and Pinget show, these interart analogies provide valuable clues for bringing to light the unspoken assumptions, obscurely understood principles, and extra-literary aspirations that gave such urgency to the modernist quest to better represent the mind in action."—Fabula

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; IntroductionMusic, Mimesis, and MetaphorRobert Pinget and the Musicalization of FictionMusic and Autobiography (Leiris lyrique)Beckett, Music, and the Heart of ThingsMusic, Metaphysics, and Moral Purpose in LiteratureBibliography; Index

Eric Prieto is an assistant professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"Carefully reasoned. . . . Difficult but rewarding. Highly recommended."—Choice "A well-researched book likely to appeal to both scholars and students. Prieto's style is clear and meticulous, and every key notion is explained…. [It] delivers a pertinent study of modernist literature, as well as a landmark for research on music in literature, laying a sound groundwork for analysis of other 'musical' postmodernist narratives."—Jean-Luis Pautrot, Comparative Literature "This kind of semiotic boundary crossing between music and literature is inherently metaphorical, but, as Prieto's analyses of Beckett, Leiris, and Pinget show, these interart analogies provide valuable clues for bringing to light the unspoken assumptions, obscurely understood principles, and extra-literary aspirations that gave such urgency to the modernist quest to better represent the mind in action."—Fabula

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; IntroductionMusic, Mimesis, and MetaphorRobert Pinget and the Musicalization of FictionMusic and Autobiography (Leiris lyrique)Beckett, Music, and the Heart of ThingsMusic, Metaphysics, and Moral Purpose in LiteratureBibliography; Index

Eric Prieto is an assistant professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"Carefully reasoned. . . . Difficult but rewarding. Highly recommended."—Choice "A well-researched book likely to appeal to both scholars and students. Prieto's style is clear and meticulous, and every key notion is explained…. [It] delivers a pertinent study of modernist literature, as well as a landmark for research on music in literature, laying a sound groundwork for analysis of other 'musical' postmodernist narratives."—Jean-Luis Pautrot, Comparative Literature "This kind of semiotic boundary crossing between music and literature is inherently metaphorical, but, as Prieto's analyses of Beckett, Leiris, and Pinget show, these interart analogies provide valuable clues for bringing to light the unspoken assumptions, obscurely understood principles, and extra-literary aspirations that gave such urgency to the modernist quest to better represent the mind in action."—Fabula

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; IntroductionMusic, Mimesis, and MetaphorRobert Pinget and the Musicalization of FictionMusic and Autobiography (Leiris lyrique)Beckett, Music, and the Heart of ThingsMusic, Metaphysics, and Moral Purpose in LiteratureBibliography; Index