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Coverage of Lois Oppenheim’s “Dear Mr. Beckett”

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A new release by Lois Oppeheim, professor of French and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is getting wide coverage from outlets such as:听,听The New Yorker,听,听听听(TLS-London),听the,听,听AMFM Magazine, and elsewhere.

Oppenheim is the editor of听by Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012) and published by Opus Books.

Book cover of "Dear Mr. Beckett"

The book includes much material shared between Rosset, the avant-garde publisher of Grove Press, and Beckett, the Dublin-born novelist, poet, director, and writer of plays including听Waiting for Godot.

Beckett was living in Paris and publishing in French when Rosset became his American publisher and virtually introduced Beckett to the English-speaking world in the 1950s. They were two men who “revolutionized the world of literature,”听writes Oppenheim.

With nearly 500 pages of previously unpublished transatlantic correspondence, unpublished interviews, photos, correspondence with others, and doodles (both Rosset and Beckett were doodlers), the book “is a valuable memento of the long enduring friendship and respect that they held for each other, as well as a tribute to the extraordinary achievements of Barney Rosset,” writes Oppenheim in the book’s introduction.

The book includes a preface by Paul Auster, a foreword by Edward Beckett, and is curated by Astrid Myers Rosset.

Image of the Times Literary Supplement and a featured article.

There was a reading of letters with key contributors to the book at an听.听听

Beckett was living in Paris and publishing in French when Rosset became his American publisher and virtually introduced Beckett to the English-speaking world in the 1950s. They were two men who “revolutionized the world of literature,”听writes Oppenheim.

About the editor
In addition to scholarship on Beckett and on modern and contemporary French literature, Oppenheim researches critical theory, psychoanalysis and the literary and visual arts, and creativity. She is currently completing a co-authored book:听For Want of Ambiguity…: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience听(under contract with Rowman and Littlefield).

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