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"Metaphor is as ultimate as speech itself." --"Metaphor" (1927) by John Middleton Murry, first published in John Clare and Studies (1927) by John Middleton Murry

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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Literature 1.1.1 Fiction 1.1.2 Non fiction 1.2 Film 1.3 Music 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

Literature

Fiction

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• In Search of Lost Time (1913 -1927) by Marcel Proust
• "Pickman's Model", a short story by H. P. Lovecraft

Non fiction

• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
• The Arcades Project (1927 - 1940) by Walter Benjamin
• The Solar Anus (1927/1931) by Georges Bataille
• Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Betrayal of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda
• Der Meskalinrausch by Kurt Beringer
• The Mothers by Robert Briffault

Film

• Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis by Fritz Lang
• Metropolis by Fritz Lang
• The Unknown by Tod Browning
• It by Clarence G. Badger and Josef von Sternberg
• The Jazz Singer by Alan Crosland

Music

• Misirlou by Theodotos ("Tetos") Demetriades

Births

• Albert Goldman, American professor and author (d. 1994)
• David Markson, American author (d. 2010)
• Lucio Fulci, Italian film director (d. 1996)
• Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book artist (d. 1995)
• Dick Bruna, Dutch graphic designer (d. 2017)
• Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
• Ken Russell, English film director (d. 2011)
• Kenneth Anger, American filmmaker

Deaths

• Hugo Ball (1886 - 1927)
• Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)
• Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)
• Carlos Schwabe (1877 - 1927)