This book explores the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses.

Ivan Delazari is an associate professor of Philology at National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. He holds two doctoral degrees in Philology (2003) and English (2018) from St. Petersburg State University and Hong Kong Baptist University, respectively. From 2004 to 2014, he taught Comparative Literary History and American Studies at St. Petersburg State University. He was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Mississippi from 2009 to 2010 and a Hong Kong PhD Fellow between 2014 and 2017.

A Pre-phase of Musical Experience

1 On Verbally Transmitted Music

2 Vollmann's Verbal Scores

3 The Metamuse of Gass

4 Powers and Els

5 What Comes Afterwords