For us, the world of literature is something that the more open it is, the better, because we like to inquire about new news, unknown data about authors and other relevant data that could well go unnoticed if the word did not spread. place to another.
A few days ago I discovered an article that I found very interesting. It deals with the least known of the world of literature, that is, things that you probably do not know about the world of letters and art in general. Today I bring you point by point what is described there and I also leave you the original source in case you want to take a look at it.
- Yellow Kid , published in 1895, was the first comic book in history . He is the first to use speech bubbles as a way of making characters express themselves.
- The first newspaper in history, the Diurnal Act of Rome, published in 59 BC, already contained some gossip , that is, rumor mills about public figures.
- The longest novel in history is 16,000 pages long , and its author, Henry Darger , took 7 years to write. It is titled The Story of the Vivians, in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, about the Glandeco-Angelinian War-Storm caused by the Slave Children’s Rebellion . Discovered after his death, Darger’s work has become one of the most outstanding examples of outsider art.
- The longest alphabet is the Cambodian Khmer, with 74 letters.
- The smallest book in the world is a bible so small that its 300,000 words fit on a 0.5 millimeter silicon surface. That is, it would be impossible to read it without a microscope. It was made by Israeli scientists at the Haifa Institute of Technology using particle beams called gallium ions.
- There are various apocryphal Quixotes. The most famous was published in 1614 under the title: Second volume of the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, which contains his third output and is the fifth part of his adventures. Composed by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, a native of the town of Tordesillas .
- According to Forbes , the best-selling novel is A Tale of Two Cities , by Charles Dickens , with more than 200 million copies. In other articles we have read, however, that the best-selling novel is that of Cervantes: «Don Quixote de la Mancha» .
- Although its most popular name is Mein Kampf (My Struggle), the book written by Adolf Hitler is titled “ Four Years of Struggle Against Stupidity, Lies and Cowardice” .
- Before the appearance of the printing press, many books had no separation between chapters, nor between paragraphs or words . That included the Bible, which was not previously divided into verses: the first to start structuring it into chapters was Lanfranc, adviser to William the Conqueror, in the 11th century. The current division is due to Stephen Langton , a professor at the Sorbonne, who managed to impose his new structure in Paris.
- It is believed that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in a mirror image (like a mirror, and from right to left) so as not to run the ink of what was already written, because he was left-handed. And, also, to encrypt his annotations.
- Frank Baum , author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , was inspired to name that kingdom in a file cabinet drawer whose alphabetical ordering label indicated “OZ”.
- In 1898, Morgan Robertson published Futility , a novel that described the sinking of a large ship called the Titan on her maiden voyage from London to New York. 14 years later it became a reality with the Titanic .
