On Late Style: Music And Literature Against the Grain
- ISBN-10
- 037542105X
- ISBN-13
- 9780375421051
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Author
- Edward W. Said
Description
A collection of essays by the late cultural critic explores great works of music and literature produced by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Mann, Cavafy, Beckett, Gould, Straus, Genet, and others at the end of their creative lives, analyzing how these works differed from previous ones and what they reveal about each musician's or writer's artistic evolution. 15,000 first printing.
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