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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1942. ==Events== *February 20 - Jean Bruller's novella ''Le Silence de la mer'' ("The Silence of the Sea"), concerning resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris under the pseudonym "Vercors". 100 copies are distributed from late summer; the remainder are destroyed by the occupying authorities. *February 22 - Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte are found dead of barbiturate overdose in their home in Petrópolis, Brazil, leaving notes indicating their despair at the future of European civilization. The manuscript of his autobiography ''The World of Yesterday'', posted to his publisher a day previously, is first published in Stockholm later in the year as ''Die Welt von Gestern''.〔 Laurent Seksik's 2010 novel ''Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig'' is set in this period.〕 *March - Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are introduced in his short story "Runaround" published in ''Astounding Science-Fiction''. *March 1 - Robertson Davies begins a 13-year spell as editor of the ''Peterborough Examiner'' in Ontario. *April 9 - ''The New York Times'' launches the national version of its influential ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. *April 29 - The newspaper ''Asia Raja'' is first published in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation; it will publish a number of literary works. *May - Thomas Mann moves to California. *May 4 - André Gide leaves France to live in Tunis. *June 4 - Release of the film ''Mrs. Miniver'', for which novelist James Hilton will share an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (4 March 1943). *Autumn - Vasily Grossman is present at the Battle of Stalingrad as a reporter for the Soviet Army newspaper ''Krasnaya Zvezda''; he later uses the experience in his novel ''Life and Fate'' (Жизнь и судьба, completed 1959). *October - Keith Douglas takes part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (against orders). *November 19 - Polish Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz is shot dead while walking through the "Aryan quarter" of his hometown, Drohobych, by a Gestapo officer. 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「1942 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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