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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1958. ==Events== *January 7 - Tennessee Williams' one-act plays ''Suddenly, Last Summer'' and ''Something Unspoken'' première off-Broadway. *March 29 - Stage première of Max Frisch's dark comedy ''Biedermann und die Brandstifter'' (known in English as ''The Fire Raisers'') at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. *April 28 - Première of Harold Pinter's play ''The Birthday Party'' at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in England. *May 19 - London début of Harold Pinter's play ''The Birthday Party'' at the Lyric Opera House (Hammersmith). It closes after a week but its reputation is saved by a review by Harold Hobson in ''The Sunday Times'' on May 25. *May 27 - 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney's ''A Taste of Honey'' is staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Littlewood has received the script with a covering letter stating "A fortnight ago I didn't know the theatre existed". *Spring/Summer - London publishers Faber introduce their paper covered editions, including T. S. Eliot's ''Collected Poems'', William Golding's ''Lord of the Flies'', J. W. Dunne's ''An Experiment with Time'' and the first of several science fiction anthologies edited by Edmund Crispin, all with covers designed by Berthold Wolpe based on the Albertus typeface. *August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel ''Lolita'' is published in the United States. *c. September - Herbert Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis University. *October 14 - Brendan Behan's play ''The Hostage'' is first performed in an English version by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Also this year, Behan's autobiographical ''Borstal Boy'' is published in London; on November 12 it is banned in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board. *October 23 - Announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Boris Pasternak leads to denunciation of him in the Soviet Union and threats to expel him. *October 28 - Samuel Beckett's monologue ''Krapp's Last Tape'' is first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Also this year, Beckett's novel ''The Unnamable'' is first published in English. *First volume of Shelby Foote's military history ''The Civil War: A Narrative'' is published in the United States. *Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand. *Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the "beat" movie, ''Pull My Daisy'' (released 1959). *Ken Kesey is awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to enrol in the creative writing program at Stanford University. *Mervyn Peake begins to develop Parkinson's Disease. 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「1958 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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