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| - | *[[L. Frank Baum]] | + | The The Road to Hell[1] is a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman's legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her. |
| - | **''[[The Magical Monarch of Mo|A New Wonderland]]'' | + | ===Literature=== |
| - | **''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' | + | *[[Sigmund Freud]] — ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' |
| - | *[[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]] — ''[[The Infidel]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[G. K. Chesterton]] — ''The Wild Knight and Other Poems'' | + | |
| - | *[[Joseph Conrad]] — ''[[Lord Jim]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Marie Corelli]] — ''[[The Master Christian]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Stephen Crane]] — ''[[Whilomville Stories]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] — ''[[Il Fuoco]]'' (''The Flame of Life'') | + | |
| - | *[[Theodore Dreiser]] — ''[[Sister Carrie]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Robert Grant (novelist)|Robert Grant]] — ''[[Unleavened Bread]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Jerome K. Jerome]] — ''[[Three Men on the Bummel]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Rudyard Kipling]] — ''[[Baa Baa, Black Sheep]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Emilio Salgari]] — ''[[Le tigri di Mompracem]]'' (''Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem'') | + | |
| - | *[[Booth Tarkington]] — ''[[Monsieur Beaucaire]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Mary Augusta Ward]] — ''[[Eleanor (Novel)|Eleanor]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[H. G. Wells]] — ''[[Love and Mr Lewisham]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]] — ''[[The Heart's Highway]]'' | + | |
| - | ==New drama== | ||
| - | *[[Anton Chekhov]] — ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' | ||
| - | *[[August Strindberg]] — ''[[The Dance of Death]] (Dödsdansen)'' | ||
| - | ==Poetry== | + | *''[[Interpretation of Dreams]]'' (1900) - Sigmund Freud |
| - | *''[[Oxford Book of English Verse]] 1250-1900'' (edited by [[Arthur Quiller-Couch]]) | + | :"In the following pages, I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique, every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state. Further, I shall endeavour to elucidate the processes which underlie the strangeness and obscurity of dreams, and to deduce from these processes the nature of the psychic forces whose conflict or co-operation is responsible for our dreams." --Sigmund Freud, from the introduction |
| - | *[[Ismail Hossain Shiraji]] - ''Anal Prabaha'' | + | |
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| - | ==Non-fiction== | + | |
| - | *[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] — ''[[The Great Boer War]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[The Nuttall Encyclopaedia]]'' (edited by [[James Wood (encyclopedist)|James Wood]]) | + | |
| - | *[[Sigmund Freud]] — ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' | + | |
| + | ''[[La Ronde]]'' (1900) - Arthur Schnitzler | ||
| + | :''Reigen'' (1900), usually called ''La Ronde'', is a play by Arthur Schnitzler still frequently presented, and made into a film by Max Ophüls (1950) and Roger Vadim (1964). It was first published for friends in 1900 but not performed until 1921, when it was immediately shut down and deemed an obscene work. It presents a series of tableaux of interconnected characters in different sexual situations. The play scrutinizes the sexual mores and class ideology of its day and may be described as a bedroom farce. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
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| + | *[[Oskar Fischinger]] | ||
| + | *[[Pierre Molinier]] | ||
| + | *[[George Antheil]] | ||
| * [[January 5]] - [[Yves Tanguy]], French painter (d. [[1955]]) | * [[January 5]] - [[Yves Tanguy]], French painter (d. [[1955]]) | ||
| * [[February 4]] - [[Jacques Prévert]], French lyricist and author (d. [[1977]]) | * [[February 4]] - [[Jacques Prévert]], French lyricist and author (d. [[1977]]) | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| + | * [[Henry Spencer Ashbee]] | ||
| * [[January 20]] - [[John Ruskin]], English writer and social critic (b. [[1819]]) | * [[January 20]] - [[John Ruskin]], English writer and social critic (b. [[1819]]) | ||
| * [[June 5]] - [[Stephen Crane]], American author (b. [[1871]]) | * [[June 5]] - [[Stephen Crane]], American author (b. [[1871]]) | ||
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Visual arts
The The Road to Hell[1] is a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman's legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her.
Literature
- Interpretation of Dreams (1900) - Sigmund Freud
- "In the following pages, I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique, every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state. Further, I shall endeavour to elucidate the processes which underlie the strangeness and obscurity of dreams, and to deduce from these processes the nature of the psychic forces whose conflict or co-operation is responsible for our dreams." --Sigmund Freud, from the introduction
La Ronde (1900) - Arthur Schnitzler
- Reigen (1900), usually called La Ronde, is a play by Arthur Schnitzler still frequently presented, and made into a film by Max Ophüls (1950) and Roger Vadim (1964). It was first published for friends in 1900 but not performed until 1921, when it was immediately shut down and deemed an obscene work. It presents a series of tableaux of interconnected characters in different sexual situations. The play scrutinizes the sexual mores and class ideology of its day and may be described as a bedroom farce.
Births
- Oskar Fischinger
- Pierre Molinier
- George Antheil
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- July 4 - Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
Deaths
- Henry Spencer Ashbee
- January 20 - John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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