Barney Rosset ist gestorben

Der 1922 geborene legendäre US-amerikanische Verleger Barney Rosset (Bild) ist gestern im Alter von 89 Jahren gestorben. Er war «der einflussreichste Avant-garde-Verleger des 20. Jahrhunderts» («The Guardian»).

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«Rosset introduced American readers to numerous significant writers, including Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969), Pablo Neruda (Nobel Prize 1971), Octavio Paz (Nobel Prize 1990), Kenzaburō Ōe (Nobel Prize 1994), Harold Pinter (Nobel Prize 2005), Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Khushwant Singh, Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco and Tom Stoppard.»

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Rosset

«Er war mutig, herausfordernd und engagiert: Barney Rosset kämpfte gegen Zensur und brachte mit seinem Verlag Grove Press Werke von Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre und Henry Miller nach Amerika. Jetzt starb der legendäre US-Verleger im Alter von 89 Jahren.»

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,817022,00.html

«As an adolescent growing into the moderns in the nineteen-seventies, it was impossible to avoid and impossible not to admire the publications of Grove Press, which included works by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, D. H. Lawrence, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry Miller, and William Burroughs.»

Richard Brody in The New  Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/02/in-memoriam-barney-rosset.html#ixzz1nL8UNW6Z

«Barney Rosset, who has died aged 89, was the most influential avant-garde publisher of the 20th century. He was also one of the boldest, in his willingness to question the laws governing censorship. His decision, as head of Grove Press, to challenge the ban on DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1959 led to the novel being published legally in the US for the first time, a year before the British edition. Having won the battle, Rosset immediately set about bringing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to American bookbuyers. Another trial involved William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch.»

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/24/barney-rosset?newsfeed=true

Mehr:

– «The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing», by Louisa Thomas, Newsweek, December 15, 2008.

– Article about Barney Rosset in International Herald Tribune September 2008

– Ken Jordan (Winter 1997). «Barney Rosset, The Art of Publishing No. 2». The Paris Review.