Late Style and Its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music

«Late style» is a critical term commonly deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production — often, but not only, in old age. The idea of «late style» or «late work» has been assoсiated with aesthetic expectations that promote it as a special episode in the artist's creative life. The essays in this book resist this position. Authors of this publication seeks both to question the assumptions surrounding «late style» and to prompt a more critical understanding of the last works of writers, artists and composers.