%0 Journal Article %T The “Suspicious Cosmopolitanism of Music”, or the Art of Sounds as a Point of Reference for World Literature %A Puchalska, Iwona %J Wielogłos %V 2019 %R 10.4467/2084395XWI.19.016.11457 %N Numer 3 (41) 2019: World Literature %P 17-33 %K comparative studies, musicology, world literature, correspondence of arts %@ 1897-1962 %D 2019 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wieloglos/artykul/the-suspicious-cosmopolitanism-of-music-or-the-art-of-sounds-as-a-point-of-reference-for-world-literature %X From the point of view of the world literature studies music—as the most “abstract” art—turns out to be also in this respect very different from literature, which is strongly connected with the locality. The article discusses the universalising potency of musical themes and motives in literature.