Edouard Dujardin

Edouard Dujardin (1861 - 1949) is a French writer. Its novel the Bay-trees are cut (1888) does of it one of the precursors of the technique of the Courant of conscience.

Biography

Edouard Emile Louis Dujardin only sons of the captain in the merchant navy Theophilus Dujardin, was born in France close to Blois.

Dujardin became writer of the Independent Revue in 1886 and it is there that its first work was published, the bay-trees are cut . The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center speaks about Dujardin like “important voice for the Symbolists” voice for the symbolists".

After the death of his/her parents, Dujardin inherited their fortune which he spent partly to finance the setting in scene of his plays, the Knight of last the in 1882 and Antonia in 1891.

Its works are varied and include a great number of the plays, poems and novels. Dujardin also left tests of literary and social criticism and memories. James Joyce recognized the influence of works of Dujardin on its own literary research, in particular the Stream of consciousness. Dujardin kept bonds with journalism during all its life, often entering in conflict with the capacity. He saw himself accusing of treason, but considered to be guilty forever.

Dujardin had tastes of luxury out of vestimentary matter and counted with the number of the dandies and the Parisian night birds of the time. Its many connections were notorious, in particular with the actresses, of the models and other tempting women. Dujardin had several friends who made career in art and it sometimes helped them financially.

Having wasted its fortune in this frivolous way of life, it had to launch out in the lucrative companies like the play and the real estate. It put also its literary talents at the service of the newspapers by writing advertisements. It is in one of these newspapers that the police force found an article compiled by Dujardin for which he was condemned to a custodial sentence which was commuted later.

In 1885, Dujardin and Téodor de Wyzewa found the Wagnerian Revue , after the eeRevue Indépendanteee of Felix Fénéon created the previous year. One of the innovations of the newspaper consisted in organizing exposures in its buildings.

In 1893, Dujardin married the beautiful Germaine from which it separated in 1901. The couple divorced only in 1924, date on which Dujardin married in second weddings Marie Chenou, thirty years young person than him. It had two children, lived an old age paisble and died on October 31st, 1949 at the 87 years age.

Works

Novels and accounts

the Obsessions (1886)
the Bay-trees are cut (1888)
initiation with the sin and the love (1898)

Poetry

the comedy of the loves (1891)
relaxation of the warrior (1904)
old Poetries (1913)
Magno Husband, 1917-1920 (1920)
Three prose poems interfered worms 1888,1892 (1936)

Theater

the legend of Antonia :

Antonia (1891), the knight of last the (1892), end of Antonia (1893)

Argonautes :

Marthe and Marie (1913), husbands of Heur-the-Port (1919), the return of the prodigal sons (1924)

the mystery of dead God and ressucity (1923)
the eternal recurrence (1932)

Tests

the source of the Christian river: history of the old Judaism (1906)
predecessors of Daniel (1907)
Of Stephan Mallarmé to the prophet Ezéchiel (1919)
first poets of the verse free (1922)
God Jesus (1927)
Rise and fall of criticism, its restoration (1931)
the stream of consciousness, its appearance, its origins, its place in the work of James Joyce and the contemporary novel (1931)
Mallarmé by one as of his (1936)
the first Christian generation, its revolutionary destiny (1936)
Of the mythical ancestor to the modern chief (1943)
Meetings with Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1943)
Old story of Jesus God, the Apostle opposite the apostles (1945)

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