On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Bloomsbury Revelations
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 144
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Bloomsbury Revelations
- EAN: 9781350016804
- Utgivelsesår: 2017
- Bidragsyter: Said, Edward
229,-
_______________¿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 impene
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