The Édouard Dujardin's novel Les lauriers sont coupés as a first experience of the stream of consciousness' prose

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of the stream of consciousness technique in the Dujardin's novel Les lauriers sont coupés. On the material of the selected fragments the author shows the variability of this literary device in the novel and proves that the experiments of Dujardin anticipated Joyce's stream of consciousness' prose.