Hauntings

Hauntings, by Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949), was originally published in French in 1886 and is here presented in its first-ever English translation by Brian Stableford. It appeared one year before the work on which the author’s fame is largely based, Les Lauriers sont coupés, which was the first stream-of-consciousness novel ever written, and which was certainly hugely influential on later writers, such as James Joyce. Demonstrating the manner in which Dujardin developed that technique by stages, while using monologues and biographical commentaries as a means of analyzing and illustrating the psychological phenomenon of obsession, Hauntings is a minor masterpiece of symbolist fiction, specifically of the subgenre that consists of “manic monologues,” few examples of which can compare with its curiosity, intensity and frank perversity.

Hauntings, de Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949), a fost publicat initial in franceza in 1886 si este prezentat aici in prima sa traducere in limba engleza de catre Brian Stableford. A aparut cu un an inainte de lucrarea pe care se bazeaza in mare parte faima autorului, Les Lauriers sont coupés, care a fost primul roman de constiinta scris vreodata si care a fost cu siguranta extrem de influent pentru scriitorii de mai tarziu, precum James Joyce.