The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathryn Schulz, New York).When artists and athletes age,…
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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathryn Schulz, New York).When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? Does it ripen or rot?
In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W.
Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets--and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience