Events
- April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932.
- 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 1959.; the book, published in 1928, legally circulates in the U.S. after a 31-year obscenity ban.
- Aldous Huxley turns down the offer of a knighthood.
- First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.
- Colin Dexter begins teaching at Corby Grammar School.
- Frank Herbert begins researching Dune.
- Frederik Pohl becomes editor of Galaxy magazine.
- Marcel Achard is elected to the Académie française.
Read more about this topic: 1959 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)