On late style: music and literature against the grain
(Adult Book)

Originally published: 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

Edward Said examines the work produced by Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet, C.D. Cavafy, Samuel Beckett and Glenn Gould at the end of their creative lives and illuminates the ways in which these works differed from previous works and what they say about the artist's evolution.