... humanism and antihumanism, publishing many of the major literary works cited by poststructuralist thinkers. This editorial sensibility found its roots in the class character of the press, which was headed by affluent radical Barney Rosset. Drawing on close readings of key publications, as well as of...

... Barney Rosset’s purchase of Grove in 1951 up to the decline of Grove’s influence in the 1970s and Rosset’s eventual sale of the press in 1985. While the book covers the full span of Grove Press under Rosset’s charge, Glass places his primary em- phasis on the turbulent years from the 1950s to the...

... language of literature , the real historical and cultural predicament of a France suffused all along the political spectrum by experiences of terror. It is no secret that Samuel Beckett found himself at an impasse following the writing of L’innommable . In a letter to Barney Rosset dated August 21...