I have just received my purchased copy of ORFEO by Richard Powers
Atlantic Books 2014
This sounds as if it should serendipitously resonate with my very recent reading of ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Thomas Mann and my editorship-publication in 2012 of a multi-authored anthology book of Classical Music Horror Stories…
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews of Books 
“The man who works next to him is killed for stealing three potatoes.”
— from ORFEO by Richard Powers
“Paul swam in a sea of theories. Everything from the morning’s headlines to the license plates of buses had hidden significance. But Paul’s torrent of interpretations had something joyous to it. Buried patterns everywhere. It sounded, sometimes, almost like musicology.” – from page 226 of ORFEO by Richard Powers
Orfeo or Faith: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/orfeo-or-faith/