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Edouard Dujardin
1861–1949
A daring French Symbolist who helped shape modern fiction, he is best remembered for an 1888 novel often linked to the early development of stream-of-consciousness writing. His career ranged widely across poetry, drama, criticism, and literary journalism.
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Les lauriers sont coupés
by Edouard Dujardin
L'initiation au péché et à l'amour : roman
by Edouard Dujardin
About the author
Born in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt in 1861, Édouard Dujardin became part of the Symbolist world in late nineteenth-century Paris. He wrote poetry, novels, and plays, and he also helped literary culture from behind the scenes by founding and editing reviews connected with new artistic movements.
He is most often remembered today for Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888), a novel frequently cited as an early example of interior monologue and a forerunner of stream-of-consciousness fiction. That reputation has kept his name alive well beyond the Symbolist circle in which he first made it.
Dujardin's interests were broad: alongside creative writing, he published criticism and later wrote and lectured on religion, including studies of Judaism and Christianity. He died in Paris in 1949, leaving behind a body of work that shows both literary experimentation and deep curiosity about ideas.