最早的意识流的小说,现在公认是法国作家杜阿·杜夏丹在1887年创作的《月桂树被砍掉了》。我们最近读到英国作家安布罗斯·皮尔斯的《枭河桥记事》,这篇作品虽与杜夏丹的作品可能是同时甚至稍前一些,但在当时,没有象杜夏丹的那样引起注意,不过,它倒是一篇颇为典型的意识流小说。后来,人们也看出了它的特色,几乎每个英文短篇小说集里都收进了它;目前,美国还把它拍成电影。作品以1861—1865年的美国南北战争为背景,描写一个因对北方军进行破坏活动被判处绞刑的南方种植园主在临刑时的思想活动。作家本人长期当过兵,在南北战争中是北方军的军官。他有丰富的战争生活经验。文笔慓悍泼辣,被他的朋友们称做:“辛辣的皮尔斯”。如果按照通常的方式来处理这类为他所熟悉的题材,本非难事。但作家却别具匠心,打破常规,进行新的尝试,采用了出人意料之外的、极不寻常的手法。这种手法十分新颖、大胆,它迷惑读者、吸引读者,写得那样扑朔迷离,令人真假莫辨,这确是别开生面之作。在丰富艺术手段这一点上是可供借鉴的。小说分两小部份和一大部份。头一小部份与第三大部份紧密衔接,第二小部份是一个插叙。在头一小部份中,作者一开始就描写了行刑的紧张场面:佩顿·法夸尔即将被绞死,这在读者心里引起一大疑问:他是谁?他为什么落到这样的命运? The earliest stream of consciousness novels, now recognized as the French writer Dua Dushadan created in 1887, “the laurel was cut off.” We recently read the note “The Story of the Owl Bridge” written by the British writer Ambrose Pierce. Although this work may be at the same time or even earlier than that of Dusseldan, at the time, it did not attract the attention of Dushadan However, it is quite a typical stream of novels. Later, people also saw its characteristics. It was collected in nearly every English short story collection. At present, the United States also made it into a movie. In the context of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, the work depicts a thought-provoking activity of southern plantation owners who were sentenced to hanged for sabotage of the Northern Army during the execution of a sentence. The writer himself was a soldier for a long time and was an officer of the Northern Army during the Civil War. He has rich experience in war life. Writing style is fierce and brave, by his friends called: “spicy Pierce.” If in accordance with the usual way to deal with such topics familiar to him, the non-difficult. But the writers, however, have their ingenuity, break the routine, make new attempts, and adopt surprising and unusual tactics. This approach is very new and bold, it puzzled the reader, to attract readers, writing so complicated and confusing, it is true and false Mo Duanzhi, this is really unique. In enriching the art of this point is available for reference. The novel is divided into two parts and a large part. The first small part is closely linked with the third large part. The second small part is a slogan. In the first installment, the author begins by describing the tension of execution: Peyton Farquhar is about to be hanged, raising a big doubt in the reader’s mind: Who is he? Why did he fall to this fate ?