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`An exercise in late style itself, full of melancholy, insight and
humour' -- Hanif Kureishi, New Statesman Books of the Year
`He is one of those few critics who have a masterly intelligence
while never being obscure or baffling' -- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian paperback choice
`Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring
the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' -- London Review of Books
`There is no better description of this gracefully unquiet,
probing and wise book: Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' -- Financial Times
`This is criticism of a high order, lucid and generous ... On Late
Style is a touching, fitfully enlightening book' -- Literary Review
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humour' -- Hanif Kureishi, New Statesman Books of the Year
`He is one of those few critics who have a masterly intelligence
while never being obscure or baffling' -- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian paperback choice
`Said's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring
the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' -- London Review of Books
`There is no better description of this gracefully unquiet,
probing and wise book: Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' -- Financial Times
`This is criticism of a high order, lucid and generous ... On Late
Style is a touching, fitfully enlightening book' -- Literary Review
Based on a hugely popular graduate seminar that Said taught in the fall of 1995 at Columbia, "On Late Style" examines the work produced by Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet, Giuseppe Tomesi di Lampedusa, C.D. Cavafy, Samuel Beckett, Luchino Visconti, and Glenn Gould at the end of their creative lives, and illuminates the ways in which these works differed from the artists' previous works and what they tell us about the artists' evolution. Said makes clear that rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavor, most of the late works discussed are rife with unresolved contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. But, 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. Eloquent and impassioned - the subject had increasing resonance for the author as he battled leukemia in the last years of his own life - brilliantly reasoned and revelatory, "On Late Style" is Edward Said's own great last work.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 074758365X
- ISBN 13 9780747583653
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 185 pages. Published in 2006. Valedictory collection of essays, published posthumously. One of Edward Said's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Edward Said's "On Late Style: Music And Literature Against The Grain". One of the most poignant literary texts of our time, a terminally ill writer's reflections, against all odds, on the true meaning of art and literature, as reflected in particular writers' and artists' "late style". Shortly after he completed his book, Said died of inoperable leukemia (in 2003), which he had endured during the last decade and a half of his life. What is "late style", and why is it so revealing? It is "possessed by the puzzlingly beautiful artistic works that are created late in an artist's career, after decades of creative output, yet suggest not closure and resolution but rather intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved contradiction, the 'non-harmonious, non-serene tension' of an artist renewed with youthful energy in the face of imminent mortality. Put differently, Said is fascinated by artists who refuse to go gentle into that good night, finding, instead, an autumn-summer adolescence that subverts their peers and perhaps their earlier oeuvre as well as complicates matters for critics and admirers. This quality is in Benjamin Britten's dark operatic rendition of Thomas Mann's 'Death In Venice', where a discordant amalgam of text and music shows struggle but not resolution and in 'Cosi Fan Tutte', in Mozart's gestures of longing, coldness, and technical mastery amid superficial artifice. Said suggests that Modernism itself may be a form of late style" (Brendan Driscoll). Edward Said's book is itself his stubborn refusal to accept imminent death with socially-preferred equanimity, working vehemently instead, until the very end, to complete these essays, themselves a magnificent example of "late style". An absolute "must-have" title for Edward Said collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This book was a surprising commercial success. Almost ALL other copies available online are subsequent printings even if their dealers don't say so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest literary and political writer/thinkers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD W. SAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 074758365X. no. Seller Inventory # 23496
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