1927
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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 "Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them!"--The Unknown (1927) |
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1927 (MCMXXVII) is the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
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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
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
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
Photography
- Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius on the Wassily Chair Marcel Breuer club chair, mask by Oskar Schlemmer (c. 1927) by Erich Consemüller
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)
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