Artforum, April 1st, 2006
NOT RECONCILED Said's posthumous book considers "lateness," in art and criticism ON LATE STYLE: MUSIC AND LITERATURE AGAINST THE GRAIN BY EDWARD W. SAID, FOREWORD BY MARIAM C. SAID, INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL WOOD NEW YORK: PANTHEON. 208 PAGES. $25. In considering here how the work of writers and composers comes to change as their lives near an end, Edward Said has little to say about the abandoned fragment-the achievement cut oft by death, as Mozart's Requiem was. Yet that is precisely the condition of the present book, which, as the author's widow, Mariam Said, explains in the foreword, was le...
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