El contador de historias y la máquina del sonido: una aproximación a las interacciones musicales en la vida y obra de Roald Dahl

Abstract

Writer Roald Dahl is responsible for some of the most imaginative stories that universal literature has given us in the 20th century. These stories, their characters, and an inimitable style, have created a unique universe that is part of a cultural heritage which is transmitted from generation to generation. This universe remains in the unconscious of the community in the whole world. The reference, direct or indirect, to the world of music, is one of the resources that the author uses recurrently and intentionally with different purposes: as a metaphor for social criticism, as a resource for dramatization, for psychological characterization of the character, etc. He does it, moreover, with an in-depth knowledge of the resources that this medium offers to literary expression, and of the theoretical substrates of the musical art itself. The present work represents an approximation to the role played by the universe of sounds in Dahl’s work; from the references in his work, the creation of operas or musicals based on his stories, or the use and identifications of his compositions as a teaching resource in training and promoting reading in the earliest stages of education.