Thread by @evankindley, What are your favorite stream-of-consciousness novels? (Mulling over a new course idea) [...]

What are your favorite stream-of-consciousness novels? (Mulling over a new course idea)

Relatedly: curious whether anyone out there has read Édouard Dujardin's "Les lauriers sont coupés," supposedly the first SOC novel (and an influence on "Ulysses")? Translated as "We'll to the Woods No More" by Stuart Gilbert: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/well-to-the-woods-no-more/

We’ll to the Woods No More

A delightful period piece of Paris in the late 1880’s, We’ll to the Woods No More (Les lauriers sont coupés) retains its importance as the first use of the monologue intérieur and the inspiration for...

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/well-to-the-woods-no-more/

Also would love it if people could recommend stream-of-consciousness novels by writers of color. Obviously Morrison uses it in "Beloved" and elsewhere…

Interesting how overrepresented Irish and Scottish writers are in the suggestions here (Eimar McBride, Edna O'Brien, Mike McCormack, Lucy Ellmann, James Kelman). Is that just the lingering influence of Joyce and Beckett, or are there other factors?

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