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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1920. ==Events== *February 2 – ''Beyond the Horizon'', Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theatre in New York City – partly as an experiment on the part of the producer, partly to quiet the pleading of actor Richard Bennett who has demanded a chance to play the lead role. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill becomes famous. *February 27 – Inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. *March 26 – ''This Side of Paradise'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. It is a sensation, immediately establishing Fitzgerald as a writer and celebrity; the initial print run of 3,000 copies sells out in 3 days. Though the book's reputation will dim in later years, Dorothy Parker will recall that it was regarded as an innovative work when it first appeared. *April * *Hart Crane publishes his poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in ''The Dial'', his first real step towards recognition as a poet. * *The pulp magazine ''Black Mask'' is launched as "An Illustrated Magazine of Detective Mystery, Adventure, Romance, and Spiritualism" by journalist H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan in New York City. *April 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan). *October – Agatha Christie's first novel, ''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'', is published in the United States, introducing the long-running Belgian detective character, Hercule Poirot, in an English country house setting; it is first published in the U.K. on January 21, 1921. *November 1 – Eugene O'Neill's play, ''The Emperor Jones'', is staged at the Playwright's Theater in New York City〔(Eoneill.com )〕 with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role. *November 9 – D. H. Lawrence's novel ''Women in Love'' is first published, in a limited subscribers' edition in the United States. *December 23 – Arthur Schnitzler's play ''Reigen'' (''La Ronde'', 1900) first receives an authorized performance, in Berlin, receiving strong criticism on moral and antisemitic grounds. *Publication in Prague of Karel Čapek's drama ''R.U.R: Rossum's Universal Robots'', introducing the word ''Robot'' to the world. *Publication in London of the ''Poems'' of English war poet Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918) with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon; only five of Owen's verses had been published during his lifetime, thus his work is introduced to many readers for the first time, including the 1917 poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est"; the latter 28-line poem's horrifying imagery makes it one of the best-known condemnations of war ever written. *Publication in Paris of the first volume of the ''Collection Budé'', providing editions of Classical texts with parallel French translation, Plato's ''Hippias Minor'' (''Hippias Mineur''). *Van Wyck Brooks publishes ''The Ordeal of Mark Twain'', arguing that Twain's genius was perverted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America. This is the beginning of the reassessment of Mark Twain, who until this point had been regarded primarily as a humorous entertainer. The 1920s will force a reconsideration of many 19th-century writers, most importantly Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1920 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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