You can see why Said saw it as a kind of cold rage, a last, vicious attempt to square various personal circles, resolve irresolvable oppositions that have always existed in the work. Allied to that is this whole idea of collisions - of social assumptions, genres, ideas, states of being - held together in a powerful vise of technique and personal control. For me the onset of late style will always be the moment you recognise what you failed to achieve when you were twenty-five, along with a cold determination to make it work this time. John Harrison: Late style: I can’t say I’ve figured out what it is, so I’m glad I’m a novelist and can simply make use of what I think or hope it is. Byrne: Did you ever figure out what the hell “late style” is? (Note: Edward Said, in On Late Style (2006), writes, after Adorno, “Late style is what happens if art does not abdicate its rights in favor of reality.”)
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