Jean Ricardou
Jean Ricardou (17 June 1932 – 23 July 2016)[1] was a French writer and theorist of the nouveau roman literary movement. Between 1962 and 1971, Ricardou was on the editorial board of French avant-garde journal Tel Quel.[2]
J. Ricardou's complete works (L'Intégrale[3]) are currently being published by .[4]
Works of fiction (novels and short stories)[]
- Novel: L'observatoire de Cannes (Minuit, 1961); L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou tome 1 (1956-1961),[5] Les Impressions nouvelles, Bruxelles, 2017
- Novel: La prise de Constantinople (Minuit, 1965); L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou tome 2 (1962-1966),[6] Les Impressions nouvelles, Bruxelles, 2017
- Novel: Les lieux-dits, petit guide d'un voyage dans le livre (Gallimard, Le Chemin, 1969; UGE, 10/18, 1972); L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou tome 4 (1969-1970),[7] Les Impressions nouvelles, Bruxelles, 2018.[8]
- 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); L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou tome 5 (1971),[9] Les Impressions nouvelles, Bruxelles, 2019.[10]
- 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 for Dalkey Archive Press) has been translated into English.
Critical theory (books)[]
- Problèmes du Nouveau Roman, Paris, Seuil, Tel Quel, 1967; L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou, vol. 3 (1967-1968), Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2018[11]
- Pour une théorie du Nouveau Roman, Paris, Seuil, Tel Quel, 1971; L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou vol. 5 (1971), Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2019[12]
- 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; L'Intégrale Jean Ricardou vol. 6 (1972-1973), Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2020
- Nouveaux problèmes du Roman, Paris, Seuil, Poétique, 1978
- Une maladie chronique, Bruxelles, Les Impressions nouvelles, 1989
Critical theory (in English)[]
- 'Rethinking Literature Today', transl. Carol Rigolot, SubStance, vol. 2/4 (Autumn 1972): 65-72.
- 'Composition Discomposed', transl. Erica Freiberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 3/1 (Autumn 1976): 79-91.
- 'Gold in the Bug', Poe Studies, transl. Frank Towne, vol. IX, n. 1 (1976): 33-39.
- 'The Singular Character of the Water', Poe Studies, transl. Frank Towne, vol. IX, n. 1 (1976): 1-6
- 'Birth of a Fiction', transl. Erica Freiberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 4/2 (Winter 1977): 221-230.
- '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.
- '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.
- 'Nouveau roman, Tel quel', trans. Erica Freiberg, in Federman, Raymond (ed.), Surfiction: Fiction Now … and Tomorrow, Chicago: Swallow, 1981: 101-133.
- "Writing between the Lines", Ibid.: 263-277.
- 'Proust: A Retrospective Reading', transl. Erica Freiberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 8 (1982): 531-41.
- 'Elocutory Disappearance' ['Disparition élocutoire'], transl. Alec Gordon, Atlas Anthology 4, Londres, Atlas Press, 1987.
- '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)
- Intelligibilité structurale de la page (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2018)
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
- Jan Baetens, "Representing the unrepresentable: Ricardou on the word and image problem", Semiotica 88-3/4, Walter de Gruyter, 1992: 353-359.
- 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 and Commentary to 'Appreciation'(from Le Théâtre des métamorphoses, Seuil, 1982), Studies in 20th-century Literature, 15/2, summer 1991: 263-266.
References[]
- ^ See the official Jean Ricardou Foundation web site: https://jeanricardou.org/
- ^ Sirvent, Michel (2001). Jean Ricardou. De Tel Quel au Nouveau Roman textuel. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1591-3.
- ^ "Présentation générale".
- ^ See Diacritik: https://diacritik.com/2018/07/23/marc-avelot-il-faut-rendre-justice-a-jean-ricardou-davoir-ete-un-esprit-libre/}}
- ^ "J. Ricardou, Intégrale 1 (1957-1961)".
- ^ "J. Ricardou, Intégrale 2 (1962-1966)".
- ^ "J. Ricardou, Intégrale, t. 4, les lieux-dits et autres écrits (1969-1970)".
- ^ See review article on this volume Sous les pavés la page, Acta Fabula, déc. 2019 (vol. 20, no 10)
- ^ "J. Ricardou, Intégrale, t. 5 : Révolutions minuscules, Pour une théorie du Nouveau Roman et autres écrits (1971)".
- ^ See review article on this volume""Vers un Nouveau Roman textuel", Acta Fabula, Nov. 2020 (vol. 21, no 10)
- ^ See review article on this volume Sous les pavés la page, Acta Fabula, déc. 2019 (vol. 20, no 10)
- ^ See review article on this volume""Vers un Nouveau Roman textuel", Acta Fabula, Nov. 2020 (vol. 21, no 10)
Categories:
- 1932 births
- 2016 deaths
- French male writers
- Prix Fénéon winners