In Defense of Literature is a Festschrift honouring John Calder's fifty years in publishing. It is a collection of essays, contributions and photos from those who know and understand the central role John Calder has played in the development of twentieth century literature.
In Defense of Literature is a Festschrift honouring John Calder's fifty years in publishing. It is a collection of essays, contributions and photos fr...
Increasingly Samuel Beckett is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century - the successor to Proust, Joyce and Kafka, and a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be compared to Shakespeare's in the late Renaissance. But John Calder has examined the work of Beckett principally for what it has to say about our time in terms of philosophy, theology and ethics, and he points to aspects of his subject's thinking that others have ignored or preferred not to see.
Increasingly Samuel Beckett is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century - the successor to Proust, Joyce and Kafka, an...
A poignant memoir of the Paris literary scene in the 1950s and 1960s by one of its protagonistsSome of last century's leading cultural figures are brought to life here, people who shaped our modern thinking and defined the tastes of an entire generation, changing forever the way we look at literature and the world around us. Drawing from the accounts of two fellow publishers Maurice Girodias and Barney Rosset, who were also active in the heady days of 1950s and 1960s Paris, London, and New York and from his own personal recollections, John Calder talks about the challenges of being a...
A poignant memoir of the Paris literary scene in the 1950s and 1960s by one of its protagonistsSome of last century's leading cultural figures are bro...
