by EdwardSaid (Author)
"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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 21 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0747585601
ISBN 13: 9780747585602
Book Overview: This is Edward Said first major book of literary criticism since Culture and Imperialism (1993). All of Said's books have steady sales and this is the book that every fan of his will want