This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author focuses on realisations by Philippe Sollers, Paul Celan, Umberto Saba, Karol Hubert Rostworowski, Stanislaw Baranczak, Stéphane **Mallarmé and Paul Hindemith.

Autorentext

Andrzej Hejmej is Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His recent publications focus on comparative literature and cultural studies and he authored numerous papers on comparative literature, literary theory and modern Polish literature.

Inhalt

Around Tadeusz Szulc's Music in a Literary Work - Musicality: musicality of a literary work - Description of music - Literary fugues (Umberto Saba's Preludio e Fughe and Paul Celan's Todesfuge) - Listen and read: two sources of one interpretation strategy (Stanislaw Baranczak's Winter Journey) - Score: Judas Iscariot by Karol Hubert Rostworowski - Literature beyond literature: Hérodiade - «Hérodiade» de Stéphane Mallarmé by Paul Hindemith