1946 in literature
Tests
- Jean Giraudoux, Without capacities (posthumous)
- the writer Jean-Paul Sartre the existentialism is a humanism .
- philosophy bantoue , of the R.P. Placid Tempels.
- philosophical Logic , of the philosopher German existentialist Karl Jaspers.
- Birth of the intelligence , the Swiss philosopher Jean Piaget.
Poetry
- Jean Cocteau, the Crucifixion
- April: Jacques Prévert, Words , collection of poems.
- Saint-John Perse publishes Vents .
Novels
- February: the Army of the shades , Joseph Kessel.
- April: Tropic of Capricorn , of Henry Miller is published in France.
- May: Mr Ouine, of Georges Bernanos is published in France.
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Jules Romans, on October Seven (last volume of the cycle in 27 volumes Men of good will 1932 -1946)
- Boris Vian, I will spit on your tombs
- Rene Char publishes the Layers of Hypnos .
Theater
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February 12th: Divine Words , part of Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclán is created with Paris.
- April 16th: Of the mice and the men , part of Steinbeck is created in Paris. (05). The prices Renaudot and Goncourt for 1940, reserved to the off-set prisoners, are decreed in David Rousset for the Universe concentrationnaire and in Francis Ambrière for Summer holidays (24/06).
- June: Publication of Malatesta , part of Montherlant.
- October 25th: the Eagle with two heads , of Jean Cocteau.
- November 8th: Died without burial and the respectful Whore , parts of Sartre.
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Marcel Pagnol, César
- Paul Valéry, My Faust (posthumous).
Rewards
- April 4th: Paul Claudel, Marcel Pagnol and Jules Romains enters to the French Academy.
- October 14th: Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize of literature.
- See the list of the Price of the General governor 1946.
- Price Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Gautier for History of a fact various .
- Price Renaudot: Jules Roy for the happy Valley .
- Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy: Pierre de Lagarde for Valmaurie .
- Price of the Quay of the Goldsmiths: Jacques Rising for the red Monkey .
Principal births
Principal deaths
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May 8th: Alcides Arguedas, Bolivian novelist (° 1879), author of Race of Bronze , first novel indigenist of Latin America.
- June 6th: Gerhart Hauptmann, writer and German playwright.
- July 27th, Paris: Gertrude Stein .
- August 13rd: Herbert George Wells, journalist and writer, author of the War of the worlds .
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