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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1927. ==Events== *January - The Books Kinokuniya bookstore business is established in Tokyo. *May 5 — Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by the Hogarth Press in London; considered a landmark of high modernism, a second impression follows in June. *June 29 — T. S. Eliot is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock; in November he takes British citizenship. *July 7 — James Joyce's collection ''Pomes Penyeach'' is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. *July 9 — P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey" is published in the United States magazine ''Liberty'' introducing Lord Emsworth's prize pig, Empress of Blandings (first U.K. publication in August issue of ''The Strand Magazine''). *August — T. S. Eliot's poem ''Journey of the Magi'' is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. *September — Eric Blair ("George Orwell") decides while on leave to remain in the UK, resigns from his post with the Imperial Police in Burma, and moves to London to become a writer. *December — Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes her first appearance in print in a short story, "The Tuesday Night Club", published in ''The Royal Magazine''.〔 The story becomes the first chapter of ''The Thirteen Problems'' (1932).〕 *Expatriate American writer Natalie Clifford Barney starts an informal ''Académie des femmes'' to honor woman writers at her Paris ''salon''. Honorees include Colette, Gertrude Stein, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes and (posthumously) Renée Vivien. *Translation of Franz Roh's work of artistic criticism ''Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei'' ("After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting", 1925) into Spanish by ''Revista de Occidente'' leads to the concept of magic realism becoming popular in Latin American literature.〔Guenther, Irene. "Magic Realism in the Weimar Republic" in ''MR: Theory, History, Community''.〕 *Victor Gollancz establishes the London publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd. *The Strand Bookstore business is established in Manhattan by Benjamin Bass. 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「1927 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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