Inner music example type: Literature

Touching the Void

Biography, Films, Literature

Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates’s near fatal descent after climbing the 6,344-metre peak Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Within it, he describes being delirious after a climbing accident and has a negative experience imagining Boney M’s ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’.

Swann’s Way

Literature

Proust's description of the fictional Vinteuil Sonata triggering involuntary memory.

An Equal Music

Literature

In the novel An Equal Music (1999) by Vikram Seth, pianist Julia compensates for her increasing hearing impairment with the use of musical imagery

A Literary Nightmare

Literature

An example of involuntary musical imagery, distracting the author