{"id":117,"date":"2017-02-01T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/?p=117"},"modified":"2019-06-04T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:26:59","slug":"coverage-of-lois-oppenheims-dear-mr-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/modern-languages-and-literatures\/2017\/02\/01\/coverage-of-lois-oppenheims-dear-mr-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage of Lois Oppenheim’s “Dear Mr. Beckett”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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:\u00a0The New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The New Yorker,\u00a0Newsday<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The Times Literary Supplement<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(TLS-London),\u00a0the\u00a0Minneapolis StarTribune<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The Buffalo News<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0AMFM Magazine, and elsewhere.\n

Oppenheim is the editor of\u00a0Dear Mr. Beckett – Letters from the Publisher: The Samuel Beckett File\u00a0<\/em><\/a>by Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012) and published by Opus Books.<\/p><\/div>

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\"Book<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div>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\u00a0Waiting for Godot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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,”\u00a0writes Oppenheim.<\/p>\n

With nearly 500 pages of previously unpublished transatlantic correspondence, unpublished interviews, photos, correspondence with others, and doodles (both Rosset and Beckett were doodlers), the book “is a valuable memento of the long enduring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.\n

The book includes a preface by Paul Auster, a foreword by Edward Beckett, and is curated by Astrid Myers Rosset.<\/p><\/div>

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\"Image<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div>There was a reading of letters with key contributors to the book at an\u00a0October 2016 event at The Center for Fiction<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0There will be a panel discussion with major Beckett directors and scholars in the coming weeks at the American Irish Historical Center.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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,”\u00a0writes Oppenheim.<\/p>\n

About the editor<\/strong>
\nIn 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:\u00a0For Want of Ambiguity…: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience<\/em>\u00a0(under contract with Rowman and Littlefield).<\/em><\/p>\n

Learn more
\n<\/strong>Contact Media Relations<\/a>
\nDepartment of Modern Languages and Literatures<\/a>
\nFrench Program at Montclair State University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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