Edouard Dujardin

Adeline Heck (Princeton University)

Ed. by Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

Born 10 Nov 1861
Died 31 Oct 1949
Activity 1882-1949

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Dujardin's Works

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Édouard Dujardin’s modest renown in the history of 19th-century French literature owes little to what he was most known for in his lifetime. In the 1880s, he was famed for his prowess as an avant-garde editor whose accomplishments included the foundation of the

Revue wagnérienne,

a publication that spearheaded the nascent Symbolist movement. Today, he is rather remembered as a minor novelist who happened to be a great formal innovator. This shift in reputation stemmed from the interest of James Joyce and his fellow modernists, who rediscovered Dujardin’s contributions as a fiction writer more than thirty years after his first novel,

Les Lauriers sont coupés

(1887), had been written and released. This text caught their attention as the first novel to be exclusively structured around…

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Citation: Heck, Adeline. "Edouard Dujardin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 January 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13730, accessed 23 November 2024.]