Jean Ricardou

Jean Ricardou (17 June 1932 – 23 July 2016) was a French writer and theorist of the nouveau roman literary movement.[1] Between 1962 and 1971, Ricardou was on the editorial board of French avant-garde journal Tel Quel.[2]

Jean Ricardou and Claude Simon (Cerisy, France).

Works of fiction (novels and short stories)

  • Novel: L'observatoire de Cannes (Minuit, 1961)
  • Novel: La prise de Constantinople (Minuit, 1965)
  • Novel: Les lieux-dits, petit guide d'un voyage dans le livre (Gallimard, Le Chemin, 1969; UGE, 10/18, 1972)
  • Short Stories: Révolutions minuscules (Gallimard, Le Chemin, 1971; rewritten and expanded version including Révélations minuscules, en guise de préface, à la gloire de Jean Paulhan (Les Impressions nouvelles, 1988)
  • Short Stories: La cathédrale de Sens (Les Impressions nouvelles, 1988)

Fiction (in English)

To date, only Les lieux-dits (translated as Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book by Jordan Stump for Dalkey Archive Press) has been translated into English.

Critical theory (books)

  • Problèmes du Nouveau Roman (Seuil, Tel Quel, 1967)
  • Pour une théorie du Nouveau Roman (Seuil, Tel Quel, 1971)
  • Le Nouveau Roman, Seuil, collection 'Ecrivains de toujours', 1973 ; rewritten and expanded version including a new preface and essay 'Les raisons de l'ensemble', Seuil, collection 'Points', 1990.
  • Nouveaux problèmes du Roman (Seuil, Poétique, 1978)
  • Une maladie chronique (Les Impressions nouvelles, 1989)

Critical theory (in English)

  • 'Rethinking Literature Today', SubStance, vol. 2/4 (Autumn 1972)
  • 'Composition Discomposed', transl. Erica Freiberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 3/1 (Fall 1976)
  • 'The Populations of Mirrors: Problems of Similarity on a Text by Alain Robbe-Grillet', transl. Phoebe Cohen, The MIT Press, vol. 102 (Spring 1977): 35-67
  • 'The Singular Character of the Water', Poe Studies, transl. Frank Towne, vol. IX, n. 1 (1976): 1-6
  • 'Time of Narration, Time of Fiction', transl. Joseph Kestner, James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 16 (1978): 7-15
  • 'The Story within the Story', transl. Joseph Kestner, James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 18 (1981): 323-38
  • 'Proust: A Retrospective Reading', transl. Erica Freiberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 8 (1982): 531-41
  • 'Immersing the Narrative Text in the Text', transl. Alan Varley, Jacqueline Berben, Graham Dallas,Style, vol. 26/3 (Fall 1992): 457-90
  • 'Text Generation', transl. Erica Freiberg, Narrative Dynamics, Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames, (repr. Surfiction, 2nd ed., ed, Raymond Federman, 1981), ed. Brian Richardson, The Ohio State U.P. (2002): 179-90

Mix (of theory, fiction, poetry, etc.)

  • Le Théâtre des métamorphoses (Seuil, Fiction et Cie, 1982)
  • Appreciation, First section of Le Théâtre des métamorphoses, transl. Jerry Mirskin and Michel Sirvent, Studies in 20th-century Literature, vol. 15/2, Summer 1991: 267-76.

Textics

  • Intelligibilité structurale du trait (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2012)
  • Grivèlerie (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2012)
  • Intellection textique partagée (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2017)
  • Intellection textique de l'écrit (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2017)
  • Intellection textique de l'écriture (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2017)

About textics (in English)

Interview (with Michel Sirvent): 'How to Reduce Fallacious Representative Innocence, Word by Word', Studies in 20th-century Literature, vol. 15/2, Summer 1991: 277-298.

Bibliography

Books

  • Lynn A. Higgins, Parables of Theory. Jean Ricardou's Metafiction. Summa Publications In., Birmingham, Alabama, 1984.
  • Michel Sirvent, Jean Ricardou (de Tel Quel au Nouveau Roman textuel), collection monographique en littérature française contemporaine 36, Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2001. Préface de Michaël Bishop. 154 p.

Articles

  • Lynn A. Higgins, 'Typographical Eros. Reading Ricardou in the Third Dimension', Yale French Studies 57, 1979: 180-194.
  • Bruce Morrissette, 'Generative Techniques in Robbe-Grillet and Ricardou', Generative Literature and Generative Art; New Essays, Fredericton, N.B.: York P., 1983: 25-34.
  • Dina Sherzer, 'Effects of Repetition in the French New Novel', in Repetition in Discourse, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, vol. 1, Ablex Pub. Company, Norwood, New Jersey, 1994: 68-85.
  • Michel Sirvent, 'Translator's Foreword to 'Appreciation' (from Le Théâtre des métamorphoses, Seuil, 1982), Studies in 20th-century Literature, 15/2, summer 1991: 263-266.

Thesis

  • Bernard Luscans, La représentation dans le nouveau nouveau roman, Chapel Hill, Université de Caroline du Nord, 2008.

References

  1. ↑ Sirvent, Michel (2001). Jean Ricardou. De Tel Quel au Nouveau Roman textuel. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1591-3.
  2. ↑ lefigaro.fr. "Décès de l'écrivain Jean Ricardou, spécialiste du Nouveau Roman". lefigaro.fr. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
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