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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957. ==Events== * January 15 - Release, in Japan, of the film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth''. * March 13 - A 1950 translation of D. H. Lawrence's ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' by Sei Itō is found on appeal in Japan to be obscene. * March 21 - C. S. Lewis marries Joy Gresham in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England. * March 25 - Copies of Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl and Other Poems'' (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity. On October 3, in ''People v. Ferlinghetti'', a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene. * April - John Updike moves to Ipswich, Massachusetts, the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel ''Couples''. * July 1 - Opening performance at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival's Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, with its influential thrust stage designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/history.aspx?id=8217 )〕 * August 7 - Italo Calvino's letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party is published in ''l'Unità''. * November 22 - Boris Pasternak's novel ''Doctor Zhivago'' is first published, in Italian translation, by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan, having been rejected for publication in the Soviet Union. * Lawrence Durrell publishes his novel ''Justine'', the first of ''The Alexandria Quartet''. The last volume will be published in 1960. * Dorothy Parker begins writing book reviews for ''Esquire''. * E. E. Cummings receives a special citation from the National Book Award Committee in the United States for his ''Poems, 1923-1954''. * ''The Last Days of Sodom'', a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected. As a result, they give up working in partnership. * Malcolm Muggeridge is replaced by Bernard Hollowood as editor of ''Punch'' magazine. * Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design. 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「1957 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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