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1926

Showing 44 works across all media from 1926

Comedy

The General

Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
1926

Keaton did every stunt himself and dropped a real locomotive through a burning bridge: it flopped, cost him his independence within two years, and is now considered the great silent comedy.

★ 8.6
Fiction · Fantasy

The Castle

Franz Kafka
1926 · 352 pages

K. arrives in a village claiming the castle above it hired him as land surveyor, and never reaches anyone who can confirm it. Waiting becomes the whole of his life there.

★ 8.4
Fiction · Modernism

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
1926 · 256 pages

From the cafes of Paris to the bullring at Pamplona, expatriates drink and travel and love the wrong people. Hemingway leaves the wound unnamed, and what nobody says sits under every line.

★ 8.0
Fiction · Modernism

Red Cavalry

Isaac Babel
1926 · 320 pages

Riding with Bolshevik Cossacks through Poland in 1920, a Jewish intellectual watches them sack towns and kill prisoners. Babel writes the atrocity in sentences so beautiful that the effect is obscene.

★ 7.0
Fiction

The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov
1926 · 304 pages

Kyiv, winter 1918: three Turbin siblings hold their apartment while the government falls and Ukrainian nationalists seize the city. Bulgakov's doomed White officers so charmed Stalin he saw the stage version fifteen times.

★ 6.3
Interview

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

★ 6.0
Speech · Political speech

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

★ 5.1