19 August 2008
Obscene: the literary world of Barney Rosset
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American entrepreneur and publisher Barney Rosset mounted landmark, and ultimately successful, legal battles for free speech over the right to publish an uncensored version of Lady Chatterley's Lover and over Henry Miller's controversial novel Tropic of Cancer. He introduced Americans to writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco and Harold Pinter and published many of the writers of the Beat generation, including William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Filmmakers Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor have recorded the achievements of this passionate, and at times infamous, crusader for free expression in their documentary Obscene.
Guests
Neil Ortenberg
Co-director of the documentary about Barney Rosset called Obscene. Former publisher with Avalon New York.
Further Information
Melbourne Writers' Festival film screening of Obscene at ACMI
Presenter
Peter Mares
Producer
Sarah L'Estrange
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