_______________ ?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...
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