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On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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On Late Style is recommended for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those fascinated by artistic creativity in later life and the enduring impact of great artists' final works.
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‘A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books
‘Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' - Financial Times
‘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
‘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
On Late Style examines the work produced by great artists - Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. Said makes it clear that, rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavour, most of the late works discussed are rife with contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. 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.
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Praised as a series of dazzling case studies by the London Review of Books, this book is hailed as a fine monument to Said's critical intelligence and commitment to high art by Hanif Kureishi. The Financial Times describes it as gracefully unquiet, probing and wise, calling it Said’s own elegiac masterpiece of late style.
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ISBN: 9781350016804
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 189g
Pages: 144
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