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Counterculture Colophon - Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (Hardcover, New)
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Counterculture Colophon - Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (Hardcover, New)
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Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's
Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot,The
Wretched of the Earth , and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove
Press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era.
Counterculture Colophon tells the story of how the press and its
house journal, The Evergreen Review, revolutionized the publishing
industry and radicalized the reading habits of the "paperback
generation." In the process, it offers a new window onto the 1960s,
from 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased the fledgling press for
$3,000, to 1970, when the multimedia corporation into which he had
built the company was crippled by a strike and feminist takeover.
Grove Press was not only responsible for ending censorship of the
printed word in the United States but also for bringing avant-garde
literature, especially drama, into the cultural mainstream as part
of the quality paperback revolution. Much of this happened thanks
to Rosset, whose charismatic leadership was crucial to Grove's
success. With chapters covering world literature and the Latin
American boom, including Grove's close association with UNESCO and
the rise of cultural diplomacy; experimental drama such as the
theater of the absurd, the Living Theater, and the political epics
of Bertolt Brecht; pornography and obscenity, including the
landmark publication of the complete work of the Marquis de Sade;
revolutionary writing, featuring Rosset's daring pursuit of the
Bolivian journals of Che Guevara; and underground film, including
the innovative development of the pocket filmscript, Loren Glass
covers the full spectrum of Grove's remarkable achievement as a
communications center of the counterculture.
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