This book represents an attempt to capture links between music and literature in the light of recent proposals from theorists of intertextuality and comparative literature, and at the same time an attempt to diagnose the current state of comparative literature as a field of literary research. Particular attention is devoted to realisations by Bernard Heidsieck, Miron Białoszewski, Kornel Ujejski, Stanisław Barańczak, Bogusław Schaeffer and Michel Butor.