Musicality and Literature: a Study in How Music Influences Works of Fiction

Abstract

This paper aims to examine to what extent musicality could play a role in the process of writing as well as in a work of fiction itself. In order to illustrate how and why music is incorporated in fiction, the first part of the paper will elaborate on several authors who have cited music as an inspiration for their works. This part will also discuss a number of literary critics who have previously studied the relationship between music and fiction. The second part of the paper contains a short work of fiction, which aims to reverberate the approaches that have previously been discussed. Finally, this short story will be analysed briefly, examining to what extent it succeeds in reflecting the theories from part one.