ABSTRACT
The study focuses on Seth’s uses of realism, the English language as a medium that is constantly subject to de-territorialisation and appropriation through the form and history of the Indian novel in English; on its studied uses of Western Classical music, and therein, the figure of Beethoven and the form of chamber music (also important to Adorno); and, significantly, Edward Said’s own, late turn to Adorno’s writings on late style in music as a mode of clarifying his own contributions to the field of postcolonial writing.
