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On Late Style
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Based on a hugely popular graduate seminar that Said taught in the fall of 1995 at Columbia, On Late Style examines the work produced by Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet, Giuseppe Tomesi di Lampedusa, C.D. Cavafy, Samuel Beckett, Luchino Visconti, and Glenn Gould at the end of their creative lives, and illuminates the ways in which these works differed from the artists' previous works and what they tell us about the artists' evolution. Said makes clear that rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavor, most of the late works discussed are rife with unresolved contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. But he helps us see how, though these works often stood in direct contrast to the tastes of society, they were, just as often, announcements of what was to come in the artist's discipline--works of true artistic genius. Eloquent and impassioned--the subject had increasing resonance for the author as he battled leukemia in the last years of his own life--brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #180457 in Books
- Published on: 2006-05-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 208 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' London Review of Books 'What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work' Hanif Kureishi 'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' Financial Times 'His own late style, if it is acceptable to call it that, mixes an easy mastery of material with an unquenched desire to preserve difficulties' Guardian
Hanif Kureishi, New Statesman Books of the Year
`An exercise in late style itself, full of melancholy, insight and
humour'
Financial Times
`There is no better description of this gracefully unquiet,
probing and wise book: Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style'
