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1926
 
    
French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters       
1927
 
    
French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux       
1929
 
    
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip       
1932
 
    
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published       
1934
 
    
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate       
1936
 
    
Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London       
1936
 
    
French-born US author Anaïs Nin publishes her first novel, The House of Incest       
1938
 
    
French writer Jean-Paul Sartre succeeds with his first novel, La Nausée ('Nausea')       
1939
 
    
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris Tropic of Capricorn, about his adolescence in New York       
1942
 
    
French author Albert Camus creates an early anti-hero in his novel The Outsider (L'Étranger)