1913 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913.

Events[]

  • January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal Apollon by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia".[1]
  • January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig.
  • January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place.[2]
  • January 24 – Franz Kafka stopped working on his novel Amerika, which he never finished
  • March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
  • April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character Chéri-Bibi begins in Le Matin (France).
  • April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel sells 100,000 copies in its first six months.
  • c. April – Humphrey S. Milford becomes publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press, after the retirement of Henry Frowde.[3][4]
  • September – F. Scott Fitzgerald enters Princeton University, where he meets Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop.
  • November 8 – Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, unfinished on his death in 1837, receives its first performance at the Residenztheater, Munich.
  • November 13 – Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann), volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), is published by Éditions Grasset in Paris at the author's expense.
  • December 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, appears in the New York World.[5]
  • December 26 – Ambrose Bierce, an observer with Pancho Villa's army in the Mexican Revolution, sends his last known correspondence. He is never seen again.[6]
  • unknown dates
    • Zaynab, by Husayn Haykal, is published; it is sometimes called the first modern Arabic novel.[7]
    • Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing his edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring it to literary prominence.[8]
    • Henri Stahl publishes excerpts from his novel Un român în lună ("A Romanian on the Moon", republished as a book in 1914), one of the earliest works of Romanian science fiction.[9]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1913 in poetry
  • Delmira Agustini – Los Cálices Vacíos (Empty Chalices)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire – Alcools
  • James Elroy Flecker – The Golden Journey to Samarkand
  • Robert Frost – A Boy's Will
  • Osip Mandelstam – Hagia Sophia
  • Siegfried Sassoon – The Daffodil Murderer
  • Georg Trakl – Gedichte (Poems)

Non-fiction[]

  • Guillaume Apollinaire – The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques)
  • Miguel de Unamuno – Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (The Tragic Sense of Life)
  • Sigmund Freud – Totem und Tabu
  • Maxim Gorky – My Childhood (Детство)
  • Holbrook Jackson – The Eighteen Nineties
  • Walter Lippmann – A Preface to Politics
  • Luigi Russolo – The Art of Noises (L'arte dei rumori, Futurist manifesto)
  • Rosa Luxemburg – Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (The Accumulation of Capital, 1951)
  • Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica (completed)
  • Basil Williams – The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Births[]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Rabindranath Tagore
  • Newdigate prize: Maurice Roy Ridley

References[]

  1. ^ Wachtel, Andrew (2009). "Russian Modernism". In Gleason, Abbott (ed.). A Companion to Russian History. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 287–288. ISBN 978-1-4051-3560-3.
  2. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  3. ^ Maw, Martin (2004). "Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner (1877–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35020. Retrieved 2014-03-14. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. ^ "Oxford University Press: Retirement of Mr. Henry Frowde". The Evening Post. Vol. 85, no. 98. Wellington (New Zealand). 1913-04-26. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  5. ^ Rotary International (September 1994). The Rotarian. Rotary International. p. 28.
  6. ^ Robert L. Gale (2001). An Ambrose Bierce Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-313-31130-7.
  7. ^ Said Faiq (2004). Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic. Multilingual Matters. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-85359-743-5.
  8. ^ Suglia, Joseph (2004). Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice. Peter Lang. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8204-7273-7.
  9. ^ Popescu, Cristian Tudor (1998). Copiii fiarei. Iași: Polirom. pp. 33–41.
  10. ^ "Robertson Davies". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  11. ^ Vivien Igoe (1994). A Literary Guide to Dublin: Writers in Dublin : Literary Associations and Anecdotes. Methuen. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-413-67420-3.


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