Music and literature

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Did you know that in Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess abuses Beethoven’s Ninth as an inspiration for the gruesome misdeeds of his protagonist Alex? That in E. M. Forster’s Room with a View Lucy Honeychurch almost exclusively plays Beethoven’s piano sonatas, but then suddenly switches to Mozart, and why? Music and Literature attempts to elucidate these relationships. In this treatise the authors interpret the interdisciplinary field of music and literature, an immensely rewarding task, which in this form has hardly ever been tackled. The main sources are the works of E. M. Forster and A. Burgess. In addition, texts by Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Aldous Huxley, Carson Mc-Cullers, and Margriet de Moor have also been marginally analysed.