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| *''[[Rabelais and His World]]'' by Mikhail Bakhtin | *''[[Rabelais and His World]]'' by Mikhail Bakhtin | ||
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| *''[[The Tartar Steppe]]'' by Dino Buzzati | *''[[The Tartar Steppe]]'' by Dino Buzzati | ||
| *"[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ]]" by Borges | *"[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ]]" by Borges | ||
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"In "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940) Borges playfully explores the imaginary world Tlön where the 18th century philosophical subjective idealism of George Berkeley is viewed as common sense and "the doctrine of materialism" is considered a heresy, a scandal, and a paradox." --Sholem Stein |
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1940 was the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
Music
- "Nuages" by Django Reinhardt
Literature
- Anthology of Black Humor by André Breton
- Native Son by Richard A. Wright
- Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
- The Book of Fantasy by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " by Borges
Visual arts
- Ecorché I 1939-1940 by Ferdinand Springer
Film
- The Great Dictator by Charles Chaplin
- Fantasia by Ford Beebe, Bill Roberts
Births
- May 12 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
- August 8 - Just Jaeckin, French filmmaker (d. 2022)
- August 12 - Tony Allen, Nigerian musician (b. 1940)
- August 28 – Ivy Jo Hunter, American songwriter (d. 2022)
- October 13 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist (d. 2022)
- October 22 - Hiroshi Yoshimura, musician (d. 2003)
- November 13 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher (d. 2022)
- Giorgio Moroder
- Roy Ayers
- Brian De Palma
- Herbie Hancock
- Dario Argento
- Terry Gilliam
- Nobuyoshi Araki
- George A. Romero (d. 2017)
- H. R. Giger (d. 2014)
- Frank Zappa (d. 1993)
- Angela Carter (d. 1992)
- Panamarenko (d. 2019)
- Vito Acconci (d. 2017)
- Tony Conrad (d. 2016)
- Fontella Bass (d. 2012)
- Pina Bausch (d. 2009)
Deaths
- March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- June 10 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and publisher
- June 21 - Édouard Vuillard, painter (b. 1868)
- June 29 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter expressionism, cubism, and surrealism (b. 1879)
- September 27 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatist" and art critic (b. 1892)
- December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1896)
- December 22 - Nathanael West (b. 1903)
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