Intermedial connections: Reimagining music in literature
"One of my favourite parts of Chinua Achebe’s masterpiece, Things Fall Apart, is a ferociously intense public wrestling scene. It buzzes with an ever-moving pulse, choreographed by the beating of drums. They rise with the intensity of the fighting, and older men 'remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm.'"
Jimmy Brewer explores how Kerouac, Proust and Achebe capture the experience of live music in their works.
