Someone found the manuscript in storage in January, according to the statement, and Open Road will publish it in paperback and digital formats Oct. 22.
The quest to discover more about his father provides the action for Camus's luminous autobiographical novel, "The First Man, " the incomplete manuscript of which was found in the wreckage of Gallimard's Facel Vega automobile.
The musicologist says that the dropped bassoon line was the largest error he's ever discovered in a Ravel score, though he found numerous other discrepancies between the manuscript and the published score in terms of accent marks, dynamics and tempo changes.