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23 ratings, 3.57 average rating, 4 reviews
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published
2006
by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Hardcover, 208 pages
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074758365X
(isbn13: 9780747583653)
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Read in July, 2007
A short, eloquent study of artists who in their later work refuse to give way to the more serene, unified style that sometimes typifies late work. Discussing Adorno, Britten, Mozart, Visconti, Strauss, Gould, and others too in passing, Said doesn't outright offer any thesis regarding the complex irresolution that such artists exemplify, but his ideas are fresh and compelling.
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Read in August, 2008
said's elegy to adorno and himself. a couple of beautiful essays on glenn gould and adorno's concept of late style. feels a bit patched together because it was, as said didn't finish it before he died.
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Read in April, 2008
The chapter on Genet is the most helpful to my work; for the other chapters I was just along for the [have to take your word for it:] ride.
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Disappointing work that is bitty and not a really coherent set of insights.
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