1857 in literature

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Events

Prose

  • February 7: Gustave Flaubert was acquitted by a Paris court in a criminal trial on charges of having violated with descriptions in the novel Madame Bovary against morality and religion.
  • Madame Bovary appears for the first time in book form after it has already been published in the previous year in sequels in the arts section of the Revue de Paris.
  • Adalbert Stifter published the three-volume bildungsroman Indian Summer.
  • Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy completes the third part of his trilogy Childhood, boyhood, youth years. He also published the short story Lucerne.
  • The German fairy tale by Ludwig Bechstein appears in the " edition last hand." The first edition appeared in 1845.

Poetry

  • JUNE 25: The first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal of poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire appears. Already on July 7, directs the prosecution a prosecution for blasphemy and insulting the public morality.
  • August 20: Charles Baudelaire is sentenced to a fine of 300 francs for "insulting the public morality and decency ". A fine will also receive his preferred publisher Auguste Poulet - Malassis. Six incriminating poems - Lesbos, damnées Femmes, Le Lethe, À celle qui est trop gaie, Les Bijoux and Les Metamorphoses du vampire - must also be removed from the Fleurs du Mal and may not be published. At the end of Baudelaire begins with the preparation of a second edition.

Drama

  • MARCH 26: The comedy The affair Rue de Lourcine by Eugène Labiche experienced its first performance at the Théâtre du Palais -Royal in Paris.

Periodicals

  • The New Yorker magazine Harper's Weekly will be published for the first time.

Scientific works

  • August: Karl Marx starts working on the factory floor plans of the critique of political economy, one of the preparatory work on Capital.
  • Elizabeth Gaskell wrote the biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, who died about two years ago a writer.

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