| On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain Contributor(s): Said, Edward W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375726330 ISBN-13: 9780375726330 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: In his last collection of essays, one of the most highly regarded cultural critics of our time examines works produced by Strauss, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and other artists at the end of their lives, and explains what the works say about the evolution of these artists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 700.19 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.28" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven, Genet, Mozart, Lampedusa, Euripides, Cavafy, and Mann, among others. He uncovers the conflicts and complexity that often distinguish artistic lateness, resulting in works that stood in direct contrast to what was popular at the time and were forerunners of what was to come in each artist's discipline-works of true genius. Eloquent and impassioned, brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, On Late Style is Edward Said's own great last work. |