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There is an ironically amusing moment early on in Edward Said's last, unfinished, but intriguing book, On Late Style. Said was in Beirut when a friend brought Jean Genet - a keen supporter of the Palestinians - to meet him. Genet, with his Beckett-like silences, clear-eyed stares but definitely unBeckettlike penchant for revolutionaries, is described by Said, quoting Raymond Williams, as "a resource of hope".
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End notes On Late Style Edward Said Bloomsbury, 208pp, £16.99
HANIF KUREISHI laments the passing of a supremely humane intellectualThere is an ironically amusing moment early on in Edward Said's last, unfinished, but intriguing book, On Late Style. Said was in Beirut when a friend brought Je...See the full content of this document
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