Literature year 1868

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Literature year 1868
Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski completes his work The Idiot .
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is considered to be a trailblazer in crime fiction .	Louisa May Alcott publishes the novel Little Women .

Events

prose

Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski completes his work The Idiot , which will appear in sequels from January in the Russian magazine Russki Westnik .
October: The American Louisa May Alcott publishes the novel Little Women , composed between May and July . Due to the surprising success, she starts working on a second part in November.

Title page of the French original edition with an illustration by the draftsman Édouard Riou

The first volume of Jules Verne's novel Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant is published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel .
Jonas Breitenstein publishes the story Jakob, der Glücksschmied as his last book publication . A picture of life .

The crime novel The Moonstone ( The Moonstone ) of the British writer Wilkie Collins first appears as a serial novel in by Charles Dickens published weekly magazine All the Year Round . The story has been so popular from the start that readers queue up and place bets on the lunar diamond's whereabouts as each new issue of the magazine comes out. While Collins is still working on the story, it is extended from a 26-part series to a 32-part series. A little later the work appears in book form. The diary and letter novel is considered to be groundbreaking in crime fiction .

The Goldelse by E. Marlitt appears as a book edition.

The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós completes his first novel La Fontana de Oro .

Poetry

Anonymous first edition of the first song of the "Gesänge des Maldoror" (Paris 1868)

Autumn: Isidore Lucien Ducasse publishes, anonymously and at her own expense, the first song by Maldoror at Questroy et Cie in Paris. On November 10, Ducasse sent a letter to the poet Victor Hugo , enclosing two copies of the first song, and in which he asked him for a letter of recommendation for further publication.

drama

The historical tragedy Tsar Fedor Ivanovich by Alexei Tolstoy appears , but it will not be premiered until 30 years later.

By Alexander Ostrovsky comedy seems a stupidity also makes the smartest and will be premiered in the same year.

Periodicals

July: The first issue of the Californian literary magazine Overland Monthly appears.

The satirical magazine Hamburger Wespen , founded by Julius Stettenheim in 1862 , is renamed Berliner Wespen after Stettenheim returned to his hometown following an amnesty.

The gazebo in 1868

Scientific works

from September: After several months of research through Greece and the Troas , Heinrich Schliemann writes the book Ithaca, the Peloponnese and Troy in Paris .

The German priest and zoologist Bernard Altum publishes his book Der Vogel und seine Leben , which, taking into account the function of bird song, first contains a theory of territorial formation in birds and their territorial behavior

Born

First half of the year

January 4 : Rudolf Lebius , German journalist († 1946 )
January 10 : Carl Albrecht Bernoulli , Swiss Protestant theologian and writer († 1937 )
January 10 : Ozaki Kōyō , Japanese writer († 1903 )
January 13 : Julian Borchardt , German journalist († 1932 )

Gustav Meyrink (approx. 1886)

19 January : Gustav Meyrink , Austrian writer († 1932 )
January 20 : Wilhelm Schäfer , German writer († 1952 )
January 21 : Ludwig Jacobowski , German poet, writer and publicist († 1900 )

February 4 : Max Paschke , German publisher († 1932 )
February 5 : Henri Hinrichsen , German publisher († 1942 )
February 10 : William Allen White , American journalist, politician and writer († 1944 )

March 3 : Émile Chartier , French philosopher, writer and journalist († 1951 )
March 23 : Dietrich Eckart , German publicist and fatherly friend of Adolf Hitler († 1923 )

Maxim Gorky

March 28 : Maxim Gorki , Russian writer († 1936 )

April 1 : Edmond Rostand , French playwright († 1918 )
April 7 : José de Castro , Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician, Prime Minister († 1929 )
April 8 : Simon Gfeller , dialect poet († 1943 )
April 20 : Charles Maurras , French writer and political publicist († 1952 )
April 26 : Max Geißler , German editor and writer, literary scholar († 1945 )

Gaston Leroux (1907)

May 6 : Gaston Leroux , French writer († 1927 )
May 7 : Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish writer († 1927 )
May 23 : Harry Graf Kessler , German art collector, patron, author and diplomat († 1937 )
May 28 : Claude Anet , French writer († 1931 )

June 8 : Adele Gerhard , German writer († 1956 )
June 11 : Bert Bailey , Australian actor, author and theater impresario († 1953 )
June 20 : Walter Bloem , German writer († 1951 )

Second half of the year

July 4 : Rudolf Presber , German writer and journalist († 1935 )
July 12 : Stefan George , German poet and writer († 1933 )
July 14 : Gertrude Bell , British travel writer and historian († 1926 )
July 19 : Moritz Heimann , German writer and journalist († 1925 )
July 28 : Thomas Peter Krag , Norwegian writer († 1913 )

August 2 : Theodor Wolff , German writer, publicist and critic († 1943 )
August 6 : Paul Claudel , French poet and diplomat († 1955 )
August 15 : Jan Welzl , Czech globetrotter, adventurer, storyteller, writer († 1948 )