This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922.
Under modern
copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper
copyright notice entered the
public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in
1998.
February–September –
D. H. and
Frieda Lawrence migrate from Europe to the United States, visiting Australia on the way, where he completes writing his novel Kangaroo.
c. March 8 – The Czech playwrights
Karel and
Josef Čapek's play Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, also known as The Insect Play, published
1921) is first performed at the
National Theatre Brno. It is also first performed this year in English translation, in the United States.
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of
António Botto's poetry collection Canções through his
Lisbon publishing house Olisipo,
Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing
homosexual love as a true
aesthete,[8] sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma.
Bengali writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" (The Advent of the Delightful Mother) in support of the
Indian independence movement, in the Puja issue of his new biweekly Dhumketu. For this he is arrested in the
Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of
sedition for much of the following year. He goes on a hunger strike and composes many poems while in prison. His poem "
Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, The Rebel, December 1921) appears in his first anthology, Agnibeena.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
November –
Uri Zvi Greenberg flees to Berlin after the second issue of the
Yiddish literary journal Albatros, which he edits, is seized. The
Warsaw authorities accuse him of blasphemy for iconoclastic depictions of Jesus, notably his prose poem "Royte epl fun veybeymer" (Red Apples from the Trees of Pain).
^"António Botto e o Ideal Esthetico em Portugal". Comtemporânea: Grande Revista Mensal (3). Lisboa: 121–126. July 1922.
^Goldstein, Bill (2017). The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature. London: Bloomsbury.
ISBN9780805094022.
^Awadh, Abd al-Rahman (2015). Hamdi, al-Sakkut (ed.). Qāmūs al-Adab al-ʻArabi al-Hadith قاموس الأدب العربي الحديث [Dictionary of Modern Arabic Literature] (in Arabic) (first ed.). Cairo, Egypt: General Egyptian Book Organization. p. 92.
ISBN9789779102146.
^Tezla, Albert (1970). Hungarian authors; a bibliographical handbook. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 174.
ISBN9780674426504.
^Carter, William (1989). The UAB Marcel Proust Symposium : in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Swann's Way (1913-1988. Birmingham, Ala: Summa Publications. p. 2.
ISBN9780917786754.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922.
Under modern
copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper
copyright notice entered the
public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in
1998.
February–September –
D. H. and
Frieda Lawrence migrate from Europe to the United States, visiting Australia on the way, where he completes writing his novel Kangaroo.
c. March 8 – The Czech playwrights
Karel and
Josef Čapek's play Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, also known as The Insect Play, published
1921) is first performed at the
National Theatre Brno. It is also first performed this year in English translation, in the United States.
July – Having issued a 2nd edition of
António Botto's poetry collection Canções through his
Lisbon publishing house Olisipo,
Fernando Pessoa publishes a magazine article praising Botto's courage and sincerity in shamelessly singing
homosexual love as a true
aesthete,[8] sparking controversy over literatura de Sodoma.
Bengali writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam publishes the poem "Anandamoyeer Agamane" (The Advent of the Delightful Mother) in support of the
Indian independence movement, in the Puja issue of his new biweekly Dhumketu. For this he is arrested in the
Bengal Presidency and imprisoned on a charge of
sedition for much of the following year. He goes on a hunger strike and composes many poems while in prison. His poem "
Bidrohi" (বিদ্রোহী, The Rebel, December 1921) appears in his first anthology, Agnibeena.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
November –
Uri Zvi Greenberg flees to Berlin after the second issue of the
Yiddish literary journal Albatros, which he edits, is seized. The
Warsaw authorities accuse him of blasphemy for iconoclastic depictions of Jesus, notably his prose poem "Royte epl fun veybeymer" (Red Apples from the Trees of Pain).
^"António Botto e o Ideal Esthetico em Portugal". Comtemporânea: Grande Revista Mensal (3). Lisboa: 121–126. July 1922.
^Goldstein, Bill (2017). The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature. London: Bloomsbury.
ISBN9780805094022.
^Awadh, Abd al-Rahman (2015). Hamdi, al-Sakkut (ed.). Qāmūs al-Adab al-ʻArabi al-Hadith قاموس الأدب العربي الحديث [Dictionary of Modern Arabic Literature] (in Arabic) (first ed.). Cairo, Egypt: General Egyptian Book Organization. p. 92.
ISBN9789779102146.
^Tezla, Albert (1970). Hungarian authors; a bibliographical handbook. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 174.
ISBN9780674426504.
^Carter, William (1989). The UAB Marcel Proust Symposium : in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Swann's Way (1913-1988. Birmingham, Ala: Summa Publications. p. 2.
ISBN9780917786754.