History of modern literature death he was working on "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (published unfinished). John McCrae was born. Hilaire Belloc was born (27 July). In 1872 Dostoevsky published "The Possessed" (or "Demons" or "The Devils"). Lewis Carroll published "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There". Samuel Butler published "Erewhon", an early science fiction novel. Jules Verne published "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours" ("Around the World in Eighty Days"). In 1873 Alfred Jarry was born (8 September). In 1874 Jules Verne published "L'île mystérieuse" ("The Mysterious Island"). In 1875 "Carmen", a French opera by Georges Bizet, with text by Henri
L'Origine du monde painted a work named "1879 (From the Lost Paintings Series)" (2011) in which a veiled Ottoman noblewoman stands before the framed canvas of "L'Origine du monde". On 29 May 2014, a Luxembourg performance artist, Deborah De Robertis, sat on the floor in front of the painting and mimicked the view of the subject. This resulted in security guards closing the room and her arrest. US artist Candice Lin recreated "L’Origine du monde" in a video of her an audiovisual sculpture "Hunter Moon / Inside Out" (2015). In it, "Courbet’s L’Origine du monde with eyes" "looks back at the onlookers." From