Coverage of Lois Oppenheim’s “Dear Mr. Beckett”
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Oppenheim is the editor of听by Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012) and published by Opus Books.

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

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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