Literature year 1857
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 the three-volume educational novel Der Nachsommer . |
Events
prose
- February 7th : Gustave Flaubert is acquitted in a criminal trial by a Parisian court of having violated morality and religion with descriptions in the novel Madame Bovary .
- Madame Bovary is appearing for the first time in book form, after it had already been published in sequels in the features section of the Revue de Paris last year .
- Adalbert Stifter publishes the three-volume educational novel Der Nachsommer .
- The novel Ein Frühling is published by Wilhelm Raabe .
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy completes the third part of his trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Adolescence . He also publishes the short story Lucerne .
O Guarany , cover page of the first edition
- The historical novel O Guarany is published by José de Alencar . It is the first part of a trilogy and is considered an important work of Brazilian romanticism.
- The German fairy tale book by Ludwig Bechstein appears in the "last hand edition". The first edition appeared in 1845 .
- Prosper Mérimée creates the Dictée de Mérimée .
Poetry
- June 25th : The first edition of the volume of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal by the French poet Charles Baudelaire appears. On July 7th, the public prosecutor initiated criminal prosecution for blasphemy and insulting public morality.
- August 20 : Charles Baudelaire is sentenced to a fine of 300 francs for “insulting public morality and good manners”. His preferred publisher Auguste Poulet-Malassis also received a fine . Six incriminated poems - Lesbos , Femmes damnées , Le Lèthe , À celle qui est trop gaie , Les Bijoux and Les Métamorphoses du vampire - must also be removed from the Fleurs du Mal and no longer published. At the end of the year, Baudelaire starts working on a second edition.
drama
- March 26 : The comedy The affair Rue de Lourcine of Eugène Labiche experienced its world premiere at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
- The comedy Pasuchin's Death by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin is out in print (first performance 1889).
Periodicals
- January 3 : New York news magazine Harper's Weekly appears for the first time.
- April 18 : The first edition of the 16-page illustrated weekly newspaper Le Monde illustré appears in France.
- May 1 : The first edition of the Estonian-language weekly newspaper Perno Postimees ehk Näddalileht appears in Pärnu , which supports the awakening Estonian national consciousness. The most important editor is Johann Voldemar Jannsen .
- November 1 : The American cultural magazine The Atlantic Monthly appears for the first time.
Cover of the first edition of Harper's Weekly
Title page of the first edition of Le Monde illustré
Title page of the first edition of Perno Postimees (1857)
The first edition of the Atlantic Monthly
The gazebo 1857
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Scientific works
- August: Karl Marx begins work on the work Grundrisse der Critique of Political Economy , one of the preparatory work for Das Kapital .
- Elizabeth Gaskell writes the biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë about the writer who died two years ago .
Born
- January 14th : Emil Barber , Upper Lusatian naturalist and dialect poet († 1917 )
- February 13 : Friedrich Adler , Austrian writer († 1938 )
- February 23 : Margaret Deland , American writer († 1945 )
- February 26 : Émile Coué , French author, founder of autosuggestion, medicine († 1926 )
- March 30 : Gabriela Zapolska , Polish writer († 1921 )
- March 31 : Édouard Rod , Swiss author († 1910 )
- April 20 : Herman Bang , Danish writer († 1912 )
- May 16 : Hermann Wette , German doctor and writer († 1919 )
- June 2 : Karl Gjellerup , Danish writer († 1919 )
- June 27 : Rosa Axamethy , Austrian writer
- July 24 : Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish writer († 1943 )
- September 14 : Alice Blackwell , American journalist and suffragette († 1950 )
- September 30 : Hermann Sudermann , German writer and playwright († 1928 )
- October 5 : Fedor von Zobeltitz , German journalist and writer († 1934 )
- October 11 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter († 1937 )
- October 12 : Frieda von Bülow , German writer († 1909 )
- October 12 : Wilhelm Fabricius , German librarian and historian († 1942 )
- October 31 : Axel Munthe , Swedish doctor and author († 1949 )
- November 16 : Jón Sveinsson , Icelandic writer († 1944 )
- November 22 : George Robert Gissing , English writer († 1903 )
- December 1 : Reinhold Steig , German literary historian († 1918 )
- December 3 : Joseph Conrad , Polish-English writer († 1924 )
Died
- March 21 : Abraham Jacob van der Aa , Dutch lexicographer and man of letters (* 1792 )
- May 2 : Alfred de Musset , French writer (* 1810 )
- July 16 : Pierre-Jean de Béranger , French poet (* 1780 )
- August 3 : Eugène Sue , French writer (* 1804 )
- August 10 : John Wilson Croker , English speaker, poet and journalist (* 1780 )
- November 26th : Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff , German poet (* 1788 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1857 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Magazine 1857 - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Commons : Newspapers 1857 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Gazebo (1857) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Digitized newspapers from 1857 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
- Austrian newspapers from 1857 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) of the Austrian National Library
- Digitized editions of Le Monde illustré 1857 in Gallica.fr