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In the postcolonial world, the claim to an emancipated national culture was bound to its aesthetic correlate, the unfolding time and experiments of the twentieth-century novel. Today, the constructs of both novel and a progressivist national project function, in all their closures, within global scales of economic disparity and violent exclusion.
What is the fate of a literary canon when it is no longer capable of delineating a future or otherwise, is bound to reproduce the failures of the past within its own inscriptions? How do we experience our current "globalist" moment, when lived inequities of gender, labour and ethnicity emerge in a texts inability to speak on time? When does artistic or literary failure become the measure of a work''s accomplishment? And what sort of liberation is envisioned by works that refuse the imperatives of "progress" and "independence" which embrace the appearance of obsolescence by rejecting values of artistic freedom, originality and innovation? These are some of the provocations that arise from T.W. Adorno''s idea of late style for our own conjuncture a properly postcolonial context, in which every conceptual or expressive engagement is articulated through an awareness of eroded national promise.
Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of literary and artistic modernity in India through Adornos category of late-style. In striking readings of Adorno and his interlocuters, the book extends a poetics of lateness toward a speculative history of the twentieth-century novel in India. Comprised of critically neglected selections from the oeuvres of canonical writers, Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India proposes that under conditions of advanced capitalism, logics of redundancy overtake the novels foundational reference point in the nation to produce altered frames of thought and sensibility and therein, a reader who might encounter, anew, the figures of an unfulfilled twentieth century.
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