jenks
thread death
A number of different strands have come together recently:
The new Dylan album
Glenn Gould documentary on Sunday where he talked about the last Bach pieces
Roth's recent novels
The late Rembrandts in the National Gallery which i have mentioned here before
and now Said's work of the same name reviewed in the LRB.
Obviously it can be seen as pretty arbitrary dividing an artist's work up into sections but i do think there is something in this idea of soemone rallying for one last hurrah where they stare death in the face and report back from the edge of the abyss to the rest of us.
Or is this Romantic nonsense?
I haven't read what Adorno has to say on this but i know that Said's starting point are the late Beethoven pieces which i only have a fleeting knowledge of. I think the idea is that at this last point an artistic breakthrough is made in extremis.
any thoughts?
The new Dylan album
Glenn Gould documentary on Sunday where he talked about the last Bach pieces
Roth's recent novels
The late Rembrandts in the National Gallery which i have mentioned here before
and now Said's work of the same name reviewed in the LRB.
Obviously it can be seen as pretty arbitrary dividing an artist's work up into sections but i do think there is something in this idea of soemone rallying for one last hurrah where they stare death in the face and report back from the edge of the abyss to the rest of us.
Or is this Romantic nonsense?
I haven't read what Adorno has to say on this but i know that Said's starting point are the late Beethoven pieces which i only have a fleeting knowledge of. I think the idea is that at this last point an artistic breakthrough is made in extremis.
any thoughts?