![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Said's proneness to anger does not prevent Brennan from presenting him as a secular saint. These include his vanity, his resistance to criticism, his impatience with students and his polemical rages. In Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said, while providing evidence of Said's many admirable qualities, such as his courage in speaking and writing for the Palestinian cause, his promotion of Arabic novelists in translation, his enthusiasm for engaging with challenging intellectual theories and his remarkable skill as a musician, Brennan repeatedly takes note of his failings. Timothy Brennan evidently knew Edward Said very well and has conducted numerous interviews with others who knew him well, and he has had access to such fascinating unpublished documents as Said's unfinished novel. ![]()
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