Makhov A. E. Selected Works: in 3 vols. Tula: Aquarius, 2025. Vol. 2. On the Music of the Word / compiled, edited, and introduced by O. L. Dovgiy. 780 p.: Book review

The review presents an analysis of the book “On the Music of the Word”, included in the collection of selected works by the prominent Soviet and Russian humanities scholar, Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, and leading researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Evgenievich Makhov (1959-2021). The book, structured chronologically, brings together interdisciplinary materials of various genres: the monograph “Musica Literaria: The Idea of Verbal Music in European Poetics”; the doctoral dissertation “The System of Musicological Concepts and Terms in the History of European Poetics” along with documents related to its defense; articles from various years; and the plan for the book “Poetics and Music”. These works offer insights not only into the centuries-old relationship between word and music and the various facets of A. E. Makhov’s concept of verbal musicality but also into the stages of their formation and development. The edition is intended for specialists in literary theory and history, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural studies, as well as a wide range of readers.