The  interdisciplinary volume  “The Polyphony of Ideas: From Tolstoy to
Manga” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025) focuses on examining the relationship between music and music performance and literary works within various national literatures, from the 19th century to the present day, by presenting an amalgam of the contemporary different critical approaches to this topic across national literatures and genres, from music in Leo Tolstoy and Marcel Proust to the role of music in Japanese manga. It investigates each
author’s technique of representing music in literature or how an author’s work has been adapted musically and includes a broad range of articles devoted to the analysis of the complex interplay of the two art forms: aesthetic and cultural interactions between music and literature or between audience and performers; the nature of creativity and the role of music in the specific texts; as well as broader topics of integrating a musical performance within the narrative form.