Leonard Rosmarin (born in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professor of French literature and a novelist. He is the former Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Rosmarin is a specialist of seventeenth century French literature, and links between opera and literature.[1][2]

Biography

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Rosmarin earned a doctorate from Yale University where he began his teaching career in 1964. He became assistant professor at Wesleyan University, also in Connecticut.[3]

In 1969, he returned to Canada to take up a position as associate, then full professor at Brock University.

Rosmarin has been decorated twice by the Government of France for distinguished service in the cause of French letters.[4]

Books

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  • Elie Wiesel ou le refus du désespoir, Editions du Grand-Pré, 2011 (book never published: publisher went bankrupt)
  • Getting Enough, Strategic Book Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1606934104[5]
  • Liliane Atlan ou la quête de la forme divine, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 2004
  • When Literature becomes Opera : Study of a Transformational Process, Rodopi Bv Editions, 1999, ISBN 978-9042006942
  • Robert Pinget, Twayne publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-0805745375
  • Exilés, marginaux et parias dans les littératures francophones, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1994
  • Albert Cohen, témoin d'un peuple, Editions du Grand-Pré, 1992
  • Emmanuel Levinas, humaniste de l'autre homme, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1991, ISBN 978-0921916130
  • Saint-Evremond, artiste de l'euphorie, Summa publications, 1987, ISBN 978-0917786525

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