This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920.
Events[edit]
- February 2 – Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame.
- February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London.[1]
- Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (Novomeška pomlad) event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism.
- March 15 – The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written,"[2] it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp.
- March 22 – Federico García Lorca's first play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell (El maleficio de la mariposa) is poorly received at its première in Madrid.
- March 26 – This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald sets him up as a writer and celebrity. An initial 3,000 copies sell out in three days. The book's reputation dims in later years, but Dorothy Parker will recall that it was seen as innovative when it first appeared.
- April
- Hart Crane publishes his poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in The Dial, his first major move toward recognition as a poet.
- The pulp magazine Black Mask is launched in New York City as "An Illustrated Magazine of Detective Mystery, Adventure, Romance, and Spiritualism" by journalist H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan.
- April 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan).
- May 1 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" appears in the Saturday Evening Post and on the magazine's cover, illustrated by artist Norman Rockwell.
- August 22 – The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated with a performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann (Everyman, 1911) in front of Salzburg Cathedral, directed by Max Reinhardt.
- October – Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the setting of an English country house. The book is published in the U.K. on January 21, 1921.
- November 1 – Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones plays at the Playwright's Theater in New York City with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role.[3]
- November 9 – D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love appears in a limited U.S. subscribers' edition.
- December – The first edition of the Poems of the English war poet Wilfred Owen, killed in action in 1918, appears in London, introduced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon. Only five of Owen's verses were published in his lifetime. This introduces his work to many readers. It includes the 1917 poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", horrifying imagery in the latter's 28 lines poem's making it one of the best-known condemnations of war.
- December 23 – Arthur Schnitzler's play Reigen (La Ronde, 1900) receives a first authorized performance, in Berlin, where it is criticized on moral and anti-Semitic grounds.
- Christmas – Monteiro Lobato's children's story "A Menina do Narizinho Arrebitado" (Girl with the Upturned Nose), the origin of the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo novel series, is published in Brazil.
- unknown dates
- Karel Čapek's drama R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots, published in Prague, introduces the word robot into English.[4][5]
- Publication in Paris of the first volume of the Collection Budé initiates editions of classical texts with parallel French translation: Plato's Hippias Minor (Hippias Mineur).[6]
- Van Wyck Brooks' The Ordeal of Mark Twain controversially argues that Twain was "a victim of arrested development" with a dual personality.J.R. LeMaster; James D. Wilson (13 May 2013). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain. Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-135-88135-1. It begins a reassessment of one seen hitherto mainly as a humorous writer. The 1920s will bring similar reconsideration of many 19th-century American writers, notably Herman Melville[7] and Emily Dickinson.[8]
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Sherwood Anderson – Poor White
- E. F. Benson – Queen Lucia
- Marjorie Bowen – The Burning Glass
- Rhoda Broughton – A Fool in Her Folly
- Emilio Carrere – The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (La Torre de los Siete Jorobados)
- Catherine Carswell – Open the Door!
- Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles (first Hercule Poirot mystery)
- Colette – Chéri
- Joseph Conrad – The Rescue
- William Aubrey Darlington – Alf's Button
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue)
- Tulio Montalbán
- Grazia Deledda – Le Madre (The Mother)
- Ethel M. Dell – The Top of the World
- Suat Derviş – Kara Kitap (Black Book)
- Alfred Döblin – Wallenstein
- John Dos Passos – Three Soldiers
- Hans Fallada – Der junge Goedeschal (Young Goedeschal)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side Of Paradise
- Zona Gale – Miss Lulu Bett
- John Galsworthy
- In Chancery
- Awakening
- Edgar Jepson – The Loudwater Mystery
- D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love
- Sinclair Lewis – Main Street
- David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus
- Compton Mackenzie – The Vanity Girl
- E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Great Impersonation
- Dowell Philip O'Reilly – Five Corners
- Ernest Pérochon – Nêne
- Marcel Proust – The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes I, first part of vol. 3 of In Search of Lost Time)
- Merari Siregar – Azab dan Sengsara (Pain and Suffering)
- Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter (begins publication with Kransen – The Bridal Wreath)
- Edgar Wallace – The Daffodil Mystery
- Mary Augusta Ward – Harvest
- Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
- Owen Wister – A Straight Deal
- Zara Wright – Black and White Tangled Threads
- Francis Brett Young – The Tragic Bride
Children and young people[edit]
- L. Frank Baum – Glinda of Oz
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Untamed
- R. A. H. Goodyear – Forge of Foxenby
- Hugh Lofting – The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- Olive Beaupré Miller – In the Nursery (first in the My Book House series)
- Opal Whiteley – The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
Drama[edit]
- S. Ansky – The Dybbuk (first performed, in author's Yiddish translation as דֶער דִבּוּק צִווִישֶן צְווַיי ווֶעלְטֶן, Tzvishn Zwey Weltn – der Dibuk)
- J. M. Barrie
- A Kiss For Cinderella
- Mary Rose
- Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
- Nikolai Evreinov – The Storming of the Winter Palace
- John Galsworthy – The Skin Game
- Georg Kaiser – Gas II
- Edward Knoblock – Mumsie
- Vladimir Mayakovsky – The Championship of the Universal Class Struggle
- Eugene O'Neill – The Emperor Jones
- Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood – The Bat
- Ernst Toller – Man and Masses (Masse Mensch)
- Louis Verneuil – Daniel
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – They (Oni)
Poetry[edit]
- Louis Aragon – "Feu de joie"[9]
- Edmund Blunden – The Waggoner and Other Poems
- Robert Bridges – October and Other Poems
- T. S. Eliot – Poems (Twelve poems including "Lune de Miel" and "The Hippopotamus")
- Robert Frost – Miscellaneous Poems
- Aaro Hellaakoski – Me Kaksi
- Bolesław Leśmian – Meadow (Łąka)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay – A Few Figs From Thistles
- Hope Mirrlees – Paris: A Poem
- Wilfred Owen – Poems
- Ezra Pound – Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
- Carl Sandburg – Smoke and Steel
- Siegfried Sassoon – Picture Show
- Anton Schnack – Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier (Beast Strove Mightily with Beast)
- Georg Trakl – Der Herbst des Einsamen (The Autumn of the Lonely)
- Miguel de Unamuno – El Cristo de Velázquez
Non-fiction[edit]
- Sarah Bernhardt – Petite Idole
- Marc Bloch – Rois et serfs. Un chapitre d'histoire capétienne
- Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Jenseits des Lustprinzips)
- William Inge – The Idea of Progress
- Ernst Jünger – Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern)
- J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare Identified
- H. L. Mencken – Prejudices: Second Series
- Harold Monro – Some Contemporary Poets (1920)
- Joseph Shield Nicholson – The Revival of Marxism, final book[10]
- Charles à Court Repington – The First World War, 1914–1918
- Radu Rosetti – Povești moldovenești
- Frederick Jackson Turner – The Frontier in American History
- H. G. Wells – The Outline of History
Deaths[edit]
Awards[edit]
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
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