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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1959. ==Events== *April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's ''Saint Joan of the Stockyards'', originally performed on radio in 1932. *May 7 - Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on ''The Two Cultures'', concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Senate House, University of Cambridge. It is subsequently published as ''The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution''. *May 28 - The Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London. *July 21 - D. H. Lawrence's ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' is one of a trio of books (the others being ''Tropic of Cancer'' and ''Fanny Hill''), the ban on which is fought and overturned in court with assistance by lawyer Charles Rembar in the United States;〔(Grove Press, Inc. v. Christenberry, 175 F. Supp. 488 (SDNY 1959) ), 21 July 1959.〕 the book, published in 1928, legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31-year obscenity ban. *October 29 - First appearance of Astérix the Gaul, in the first regular issue of the comic magazine ''Pilote''. *November 11 - Release in the United States of the short film ''Pull My Daisy'', adapted from his unperformed play ''Beat Generation'' and narrated by Jack Kerouac and starring poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso. *Anthony Burgess is invalided home to England from a teaching post in Brunei and becomes a full-time novelist. *Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood. *Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School. *Frank Herbert begins researching ''Dune''. *Frederik Pohl becomes an editor of the American science fiction magazine ''Galaxy''. *Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française. *Literature Wales is established as The Academi. *The first butoh performance piece, ''Kinjiki'' by Tatsumi Hijikata, premieres at a dance festival in Japan. It is based on the novel of the same name (''Forbidden Colors'') by Yukio Mishima and explores the taboos of male homosexuality and paedophilia. 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「1959 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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