On late style

About “On late style”

On Late Style examines artistic works created in the later stages of an artist's life, focusing on how the awareness of approaching death influences creative expression. Edward Said analyzes a range of works—including those by Thomas Mann, Richard Strauss, Jean Genet, C. P. Cavafy, Beethoven, Mozart, Visconti, Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Matisse, Bach, Wagner, Theodor Adorno, and Glenn Gould—to explore late style as marked by intransigence, difficulty, unresolved contradiction, and a sense of exile.