Abstract

Stream of Consciousness is a narrative mode which brings forward numerous thoughts and feelings of a character without maintaining a coherent structure The term Stream of consciousness is first found in the book The Principles of Psychology 1890 penned by philosopher and psychologist William James However May Sinclair in a literary article published in The Egoist on April 1918 first applied the term stream of consciousness while discussing the novels of Dorothy Richardson Since then many authors have used this literary device to discover the inner thoughts of the human mind Amid them Dorothy Richardson James Joyce and Virginia Woolf have used it more prominently than others In Bengali literature Buddhadeva Bose according to many critics for the first time adeptly manipulated stream of consciousness technique in Rat Bhore Brishti The way Bose applied it to his novel is very similar to the way James Joyce and Virginia Woolf did so in their novels The article examines how Buddhadeva Bose directly being influenced by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce wrote his stream of consciousness novel Rat Bhore Brishti It will encapsulate that though Bose followed Woolf and Joyce in using the technique in the novel he brought some remarkable changes in applying so