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)

• 'Composition Discomposed', 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

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

• Le Théâtre des métamorphoses (Seuil, Fiction et Cie, 1982)

Textics

• Intelligibilité structurale du trait (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2012)
• Grivèlerie (Les Impressions nouvelles, cahiers de textique, 2012)

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

• 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.