Like Musical Themes的意思|示意

犹如音乐主题 He was not, however, anti-art. Sir Frank expounds on the importance of music in Forster's work, including the use of literary leitmotifs that run through his novels like musical themes. Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life. He wrote the libretto for “Billy Budd” by Benjamin Britten, a British composer who called him “our most musical novelist”.