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Article: A behind-the-scenes look at Samuel Beckett
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 13, 1986
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Barney Rosset, head of Grove Press in New York, has been Samuel
Beckett's American publisher and friend since the early 1950s. With
the exception of the late director, Alan Schneider, he probably has
been closer to the playwright than anyone on this side of the
Atlantic. Last week in New York, Rosset (who was raised in Chicago
and is a graduate of Francis Parker) tried to draw a portrait of the
man.
Here, then, are some snapshots of the private Beckett, courtesy
of Rosset.
MR. & MRS. BECKETT:
Beckett met his wife, Suzanne Dumesnil, a Tunisian-born
Frenchwoman, in 1938. They lived together for decades before he
married her - a step he took only because he feared he was about to
die ...