Book Read Free

The Tender Hour of Twilight

Page 55

by Richard Seaver


  Guevara, Che

  Guinzburg, Harold

  Guinzburg, Tom

  Hachette (publisher)

  Haley, Alex

  Happy Days (Beckett)

  Harcourt, Brace (publisher)

  Harrington, Michael

  Hartley, Patsy: and Enrico; RS first meets; RS in Paris with; RS travels with

  Haskins, Jim

  Hatcher, Charlie

  Hayden, Tom

  Hayes, Harold

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Heathcote, Mary

  Hedyphagetica (Wainhouse)

  Heine, Maurice

  Heinemann (publisher)

  Helen and Desire (Lengel)

  Helmsley-Spear

  Hemingway, Ernest; definition of what is moral

  Hemingway, Patrick

  Hentoff, Nat

  Herbert, Ira C.

  Hernton, Calvin

  Hillard, Wendell

  Hilliard, David

  Hiroshima mon amour (book from film)

  Hiroshima mon amour (film)

  Histoire de l’oeil—A Tale of Satisfied Desire (Bataille)

  Hitler’s Secret Book

  Hochhuth, Rolf

  Hoffenberg, Mason

  Hoffman, Abby

  Hoffman, Michael

  Holland, Brud

  Holley, Michel and Francine

  Holocaust

  Holt, Rinehart and Winston

  Hostage, The (Behan)

  Hôtel de l’Ancienne Comédie

  Hôtel Verneuil

  Howard, Richard

  How It Is (Beckett)

  Hughes, Larry

  Hughes, Robert

  Humphrey, Hubert

  I Am Curious (Blue) (film)

  I Am Curious (Yellow) (film)

  Image, The (de Berg)

  Imprimerie Mazarine (printer)

  Imprimerie Richard (printer)

  Indiana, Bob

  Inner Monologue, The (RS Sorbonne thesis)

  Institute of International Education

  Interiors (magazine)

  In the Labyrinth (Robbe-Grillet)

  Ionesco, Eugène: background; Don Allen translations of plays; follows RS from Grove to Viking; as Grove Press author; and Grove’s drama program; RS and Trocchi meet with

  I Spy (Mortimer)

  Italy, RS in

  James X

  Japan, RS in

  Jarrett, Keith

  Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet)

  Johns, Jasper

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Uwe

  Jonathan Cape (publisher)

  Jones, LeRoi

  Jordan, Fred

  Journal du voleur (Genet)

  Journey to the End of the Night (Céline)

  Joyce, Eileen

  Joyce, Eva

  Joyce, James: background; Behan on; comparison with Beckett; connection to Beckett; as English instructor in Paris; as favorite of RS; as friend of Elliot Paul; Obelisk Press publications; Paris publication of Ulysses; as RS thesis topic; see also Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses

  Joyce, Lucia

  Joyce, Stanislaus

  Juilliard School, New York City

  Juliette (Sade)

  Justine (Sade)

  Kahane, Jack

  Kanowitz, Howie

  Kansas City Star, reviews Cain’s Book

  Kaufman, Boris

  Kazin, Alfred

  Keaton, Buster

  “Keeping Ecology Alive” (Hentoff)

  Kelly, Ellsworth

  Kelly, Grace

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kennedy, Teddy

  Kerouac, Jack

  Klein, William

  Knopf (publisher)

  Knopf, Alfred

  Koch, Kenneth

  Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett)

  Kremer, Tibère

  Kronhausen, Eberhard and Phyllis

  Kuhlman, Roy

  Kurosawa, Akira

  Labé, Louise

  La cantatrice chauve (Ionesco)

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover (book): on bestseller lists; book jacket design; as censorship test case; copyright status; efforts to publish Grove edition; Grove Press edition; Grove’s publication party; impact on Grove Press; Lawrence’s three versions; Pocket Books edition; potential to put Grove on publishing map; reviews of Grove edition; Rosset sends Henry Miller advance copy

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover (film)

  “La fin” (Beckett)

  La grande et la petite manoeuvre (Adamov)

  La guerre est finie (book from film)

  La leçon (Ionesco)

  L’alouette (Anouilh)

  La nausée (Sartre)

  Lange, Monique

  La nouvelle revue française (magazine)

  Lapicque, Charles

  La question (Alleg)

  L’Arbalète (publisher)

  Larbaud, Valery

  Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby)

  Last Year at Marienbad (book from film)

  Last Year at Marienbad (film)

  Laughlin, Jay

  La valse des toréadors (Anouilh)

  L’avventura (book from film)

  Lawrence, D. H.: as author; reputation as master of English literature; viewed as writer “of standing”; see also Lady Chatterley’s Lover (book)

  Lawrence, Frieda, see Ravagli, Frieda Lawrence

  Léaud, Jean-Pierre

  Leavis, F. R.

  Lebon, Louis

  “Le calmant” (Beckett)

  Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France

  L’École Francaise, New York City

  Leconte, Jean-Louis

  Ledig-Ronwohlt, Heinrich

  Lengel, Frances

  Le nouveau locataire (Ionesco)

  Léon, Paul

  Lerner, Max

  Les 120 journées de Sodome (Sade)

  Les chaises (Ionesco)

  Les damnés de la terre (Fanon)

  Les Éditions de Minuit: background; as Beckett’s publisher; as Mauroc’s publisher; publishes Henri Alleg’s La question; see also Lindon, Jérôme

  Les Éditions du Chêne

  Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan (Apollinaire)

  Les fleurs du mal (Baudelaire)

  Les Halles, Paris

  Les onze mille verges (Apollinaire)

  Les temps modernes (magazine): Beckett’s work in; Nyiszli piece; publishing arrangement with Merlin

  Lester, Julius

  Levin, Mort

  “L’expulsé” (Beckett)

  Liberation (magazine)

  Librairie Mistral, Paris

  Library Journal, reviews Cain’s Book

  Lichtenstein, Roy

  L’Imprimerie Richard, printer for Watt

  Lindon, Jérôme: background; as Beckett’s publisher; as golfer; as owner, publisher, and editor of Minuit; role in handling rights to Beckett’s works; RS sees on visit to Paris; RS warns about Behan; see also Les Éditions de Minuit

  L’innommable (Beckett)

  Literary Guild

  Little, Brown and Company

  Litvinoff, Seymour “Si”

  Living Theatre, New York City

  L’oeuvre du marquis de Sade: Pages choisies (Apollinaire)

  Logue, Christopher: as author of Wand and Quadrant; as Merlinite; as poet; RS first meets; after RS leaves Paris; as translator for Girodias; view of alliance with publisher of erotica; view of Hedyphagetica

  Lolita (Nabokov)

  London, Ephraim

  Long, Jay

  Long Voyage, The (Semprun)

  Look (magazine)

  Look Out, Whitey! (Lester)

  Lougee, Arthur Fogg

  Lougee, Jane: background; as Merlin benefactor and publisher; as Merlinite; RS first meets; after RS leaves Paris; view of alliance with publisher of erotica

  Lovers, The (film)

  MacGowran, Jack

  Mack, Billy

  Mada
me Bovary (Flaubert)

  Maids, The (Genet)

  Mailer, Norman

  Malcolm X

  Malone Dies (Beckett): author’s difficulty finding publisher; background; Collection Merlin acquires European English-language rights; comparison with Murphy; comparison with other Beckett work; Grove publishes; as publication of Les Éditions de Minuit; RS’s view; Sartre’s view;

  Malraux, André

  Manchon, Frank

  Mansfield, Manny

  “Mardi Gras” (Rechy)

  Marquand, John

  Martin, Agnes

  Martin, Laura

  Maspero, François

  Massan, Jean-Luc and Marie

  Matthiessen, Peter

  Mauriac, François

  Mauroc, Daniel

  Maurois, André

  Max and the White Phagocytes (Miller)

  Maxim’s, Paris

  Mayer, Oscar

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McCarthy, Mary

  McCarthy era

  McClure, Michael

  McCormack, Edward J.

  McGreevy, Tom

  Medina, Jeannette: marries RS; romance with RS; RS escorts to New Year’s Eve dance; RS escorts to see Waiting for Godot at Théâtre de Babylone in Paris; RS first meets; RS’s budding relationship with; see also Seaver, Jeannette Sabine Medina (wife)

  Medina, Paul and Roszi

  Meeker, Marilynn

  “Members of the Assembly, The” (Genet)

  Memoirs of a Booklegger (Kahane)

  Memoirs of a Young Rakehell (Apollinaire)

  Memoirs of Fanny Hill, see Fanny Hill

  Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson)

  Mengele, Josef

  Mercier and Camier (Beckett)

  Merlin (literary magazine): arrangement with Sartre’s Les temps modernes Austryn’s influence; broadening of scope; book-publishing offshoot; described by editor Alex Trocchi; editorial office; financial considerations; issue number one; issue number two; issue number three; issue number four; later changes; printing considerations; publishes extract from Watt; RS first encounters; RS piece on Beckett; RS piece on Sartre-Camus debate; RS’s relationship to magazine and staff changes; RS’s translation of “La Fin” appears; Trocchi’s editorial for issue two; see also Collection Merlin

  Merlinites, see Bowles, Patrick; Logue, Christopher; Lougee, Jane; Trocchi, Alex; Wainhouse, Austryn

  Meyer, Helen

  Meyers, Sidney

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Henry: comparison of reputation with D.H. Lawrence; difficulty of defending his novels; extract of Plexus in Merlin; friendship with Brassaï; as Grove Press author; invited to serve as jurist for first Formentor Prize; Jack Kahane and son’s link to; at 1962 Edinburgh Festival; rights issues; Rosset’s interest in; view of Paris; see also Tropic of Cancer (Miller)

  Mindel, Saul

  Minton, Walter

  Minuit, see Les Éditions de Minuit

  Miracle, The (film)

  Miss Cassidy’s Dancing School

  Mistral, see Librairie Mistral, Paris

  Mitchell, Joan

  Mitterrand, François

  Molloy (Beckett): author’s difficulty finding publisher; background; Collection Merlin obtains English-language rights from Minuit; comparison with Murphy; comparison with other Beckett work; Grove’s interest in; as possible future Collection Merlin publication; as publication of Les Éditions de Minuit; RS’s view; Sartre’s view; translating into English

  Montherlant, Henry de

  Moravia, Alberto

  More Pricks Than Kicks (Beckett)

  Morgan, Robin

  Mortimer, John

  Mostel, Zero

  Motherwell, Robert

  movies: Grove’s art film interest; Grove’s film-book projects

  “Mr. Freedom”

  Muhammad, Elijah

  Murdoch, Iris

  Murphy (Beckett)

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Musée de l’Homme, Paris

  Muslim Mosque Inc.

  Nabokov, Vladimir; see also Lolita (Nabokov)

  Nadeau, Maurice

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs): comparison with Cain’s Book; excerpts published in Big Table; Grove agrees to publish; Grove buys American rights; legal battle on New York Times bestseller list; publication by Olympia Press; role of Allen Ginsberg

  Nation of Islam

  Neruda, Pablo

  New American Library (publisher)

  New American Poetry, 1945–1960

  New Directions

  New Republic, The, reviews City of Night

  New Tenant, The (Ionesco)

  New Yorker, The: reviews Cain’s Book; reviews Gelber’s play The Connection

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Review of Books, reviews City of Night

  New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

  New York Times bestseller list: City of Night on; Games People Play on; Naked Lunch on; Story of O on

  Nexus (Miller)

  Nichols, Cicely

  Nicolson (publisher)

  Nin, Anaïs

  Nixon, Richard

  Noiret, Philippe

  Notes and Counter Notes (Ionesco)

  Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs (Genet); see also Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet)

  Nova Express (Burroughs)

  Nyiszli, Miklos

  Obelisk Press

  O’Brien, Flann

  obscenity cases, see censorship, literary

  O’Connor, Ulick

  O’Hara, Frank

  Olivier, Laurence

  Olympia Press: background; book about; comparison with Collection Merlin; impact of U.S. censorship issues; intended audience; Merlinite alliance; at 1959 Frankfurt Book Fair; publishes first English-language version of Story of O; publishes Naked Lunch; Trocchi writes for

  One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding (Gover)

  Ordre Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

  Organization of Afro-American Unity

  Osborne, John

  Othello

  Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress

  Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet)

  Owens, Iris

  Pantheon Books

  Paris: changed by World War II; collaboration issue; RS describes 1950s in; RS working toward Sorbonne doctorate

  Paris by Night (Brassaï)

  Paris Review, The

  Paul, Elliot

  Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison (law firm)

  Paulhan, Jean: elected to seat in Académie Française; relationship with Pauvert

  Pauvert, Jean-Jacques: background; feud with Girondias; relationship with Paulhan; and Story of O

  Paz, Octavio: follows RS from Grove to Viking; as Grove Press author

  Penguin USA

  Perlman, Milton

  Pétain, Marshal

  Petit Jésus (beggar)

  Phelps, Robert

  Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade)

  Phoenix Bookshop, New York City

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pieyre de Mandiargues, André

  Pinget, Robert

  Ping-Pong (Adamov)

  Pinter, Harold

  Pizey, John

  Pleasence, Donald

  Plexus (Miller)

  Plimpton, George

  Plon (publisher)

  poetry: Beckett as poet; Christopher Logue as poet; in Merlin

  Points (magazine)

  Points of Rebellion (Douglas)

  Polier, Shad

  Pollinger, Laurence

  Polsky, Ned

  Pomfret School, Connecticut

  Ponts et Chaussées

  Poor Mouth, The (O’Brien)

  Popular Front, France

  Porter, Rusty

  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce)

  Post Office, U.S.; moves against Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  Pound, Ezra

  Prae
ger, Fred

  Prescott, Peter S.

  Prévert, Jacques

  Prix des Deux Magots

  Proust, Marcel

  prurient interests, defined

  Publishing Employees Organizing Committee

  Pyramid (publisher)

  Quayle, Martin

  Queneau, Raymond

  Querelle de Brest (Genet)

  Question, The (Alleg)

  “Quintus Mucius Scaevola: IV” (Hatcher)

  Random House

  Rashomon (book from film)

  Ravagli, Frieda Lawrence

  Ravitch, Beverly

  Readers’ Subscription

  Réage, Pauline (pseudonym)

  Real Inspector Hound, The (Stoppard)

  Reavey, George

  Rechy, John

  Red Eye of Love (Weinstein)

  Reiss, Malcolm

  Rembar, Charles: counsels Grove about union demonstrators; defends Fanny Hill; defends Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Post Office case; hired by Rosset to handle Chatterley defense; and Tropic of Cancer; wins Supreme Court case that effectively ends literary censorship in U.S.

  René, Denise

  “Repression and Rebellion” (Hayden)

  Resnais, Alain

  Rivers, Larry

  Robbe-Grillet, Alain

  Robbe-Grillet, Catherine

  Robert, Marthe

  Robertson, A. L.

  Robeson, Paul

  Rolland, Romain

  Rosenbaum, Lisa

  Rosenthal, Irving

  Rosset, Barney: accepts job with Grove; efforts to hire RS away from Braziller; film interest; as head of Grove executive committee, interest in publishing Miller’s Tropics books; Jeannette’s view; misses 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; personal wealth; RS first meets; RS throws publication party for Lady Chatterley’s Lover; see also Grove Press

  Rosset, Loly

  Rosten, Norman

  Roth, Samuel

  Routledge (publisher)

  Rowohlt Verlag (publisher); and Formentor Prize

  Rubin, Jerry

  Rubinstein, Arthur

  Sack, John

  Sade, Marquis de: as Grove Press author; and Pauvert; Wainhouse as translator

  Sagan, Françoise

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

  Saint Genet (Sartre)

  Salter, James

  “Salute to a Hundred Thousand Stars, A” (Genet)

  Sandburg, Carl

  Sanders, Ed

  Sartre, Jean-Paul: dispute with Camus; first meets with RS and Trocchi; as Gallimard author; as Grove Press author; meets with RS and Trocchi after receiving issue number three of Merlin; receives issue number three of Merlin; RS’s view of work; view of Beckett; view of Genet; writes introduction to The Question; see also Les temps modernes (magazine)

 

‹ Prev