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Edward Said's first major book of literary criticism since 1993 examines the work produced by great artists such as Beethoven, Thomas Mann and Jean Genet in the last years of their lives.
Synopsis
Examines the work produced by great artists - Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. This work helps the reader to 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.