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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1922. Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the U.S. no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the U.S. in 1998. ==Events== * This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature: * * The modernist classic novel ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce is first published complete in book form by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in Paris on February 2 (2/2/22 and Joyce's 40th birthday), with a further edition published in Paris for the Egoist Press of London on October 12 (much of which is seized by the United States Customs Service). * * T. S. Eliot founds ''The Criterion'' magazine (October 15) containing the first publication of his poem ''The Waste Land''. This is first published complete in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December. * * ''Jacob's Room'' by Virginia Woolf is published by the Hogarth Press (October 26). Also this summer she writes the short story "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" (published July 1923), the foundation of the novel ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925). * January - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's modernist short story "In a Grove" (藪の中, ''Yabu no naka'') is published in the Japanese magazine ''Shinchō''. * January 24 - ''Façade – An Entertainment'', poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, first performed, privately in London.〔 * January 27 - Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel ''The Castle'' (''Das Schloss'') at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid-sentence. * February 2 - In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his ''Sonnets to Orpheus'' (''Die Sonette an Orpheus'') and completes his ''Duino Elegies'' (''Duineser Elegien''). * March - F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''The Beautiful and Damned'' is published in book form by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York; on December 10 a silent film version is released. * March 8? - The Czech playwrights Karel and Josef Čapek's play ''Pictures from the Insects' Life'' (''Ze života hmyzu'', also known as ''The Insect Play'', published 1921) is first performed at the National Theatre Brno. It is also first performed in English translation, in the United States, this year. * April - Marcel Proust's ''Sodome et Gomorrhe II'' (part of the novel sequence ''À la recherche du temps perdu'') is published in Paris. * May 18 - Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie and Clive Bell, hosted by English art patron and novelist Sydney Schiff, dine together in Paris, at the Hotel Majestic, their only joint meeting. * May 27 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is published in ''The Smart Set'' magazine. * June * * F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is published in ''Collier's'' magazine. * * Over a single night at his home in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Robert Frost completes the long poem "New Hampshire" and at sunrise writes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".〔''Sic.'' Both are first published in the collection ''New Hampshire'' (1923).〕 * August - T. E. Lawrence is recruited into the British Royal Air Force as an ordinary aircraftman under the name John Hume Ross by Flying Officer W. E. Johns in London; Lawrence later writes ''The Mint'' about his experiences at this time. * Summer - F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''The Great Gatsby'' (1925) is set on Long Island at this time, partly inspired by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's life (from October 9) at Great Neck (with novelist Ring Lardner and newspaper editor Herbert Bayard Swope as friends and neighbors). * September - Marcel Proust's novel sequence ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' begins to appear in English translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' with ''Swann's Way'', a few months before the author's death. * September 14 – Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel on American life, ''Babbitt'', is published by Harcourt, Brace & Company. * September 22 * * Bengali writer Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" ("The Advent of the Delightful Mother"), in support of the Indian independence movement, in the ''Puja'' issue of his new biweekly magazine ''Dhumketu'', for which he is arrested by the police of the Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of sedition for much of the following year, undertaking a hunger strike and composing many poems while in prison. His poem "Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, "The Rebel", December 1921) is first collected this year in his first anthology, ''Agnibeena''. * * F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection ''Tales of the Jazz Age'' is published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. * September 29 – ''Drums in the Night'' (''Trommeln in der Nacht'') becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele. * December - A valise containing all Ernest Hemingway's manuscripts from the past year's writing is stolen at Paris-Gare de Lyon. * December 6 - W. B. Yeats becomes a nominated member of the Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State. * December 10 - The National Library of Albania is inaugurated in Tirana. * December 20 - ''Antigone'' by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the newly reopened Théâtre de l'Atelier in the Montmartre district of Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Génica Athanasiou plays the title rôle with Charles Dullin as Créon and Antonin Artaud as Tiresias. There are some protests by Dadaists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jean Cocteau - biography 1889-1922 )〕 * The first Newbery Medal for authors of distinguished books for children is awarded by the American Library Association to Hendrik Willem van Loon for ''The Story of Mankind'' (1921). 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「1922 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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