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]

Jean Ricardou and Claude Simon (Cerisy, France).

J. Ricardou's complete works (L'Intégrale[3]) are currently being published by Les Impressions nouvelles.[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 Jordan Stump 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
  1. See the official Jean Ricardou Foundation web site: https://jeanricardou.org/
  2. Sirvent, Michel (2001). Jean Ricardou. De Tel Quel au Nouveau Roman textuel. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1591-3.
  3. https://jeanricardou.org/collection-lintegrale/presentation-generale/.
  4. See Diacritik: https://diacritik.com/2018/07/23/marc-avelot-il-faut-rendre-justice-a-jean-ricardou-davoir-ete-un-esprit-libre/}}
  5. http://www.fabula.org/actualites/jean-ricardou-integrale-1-1957-1961_85389.php
  6. https://www.fabula.org/actualites/j-ricardou-integrale-2-1962-1966_85390.php
  7. http://www.fabula.org/actualites/jean-ricardou-integrale-tome-4-les-lieux-dits-et-autres-ecrits-1969-1970_91293.php
  8. See review article on this volume Sous les pavés la page, Acta Fabula, déc. 2019 (vol. 20, no 10)
  9. http://www.fabula.org/actualites/jean-ricardou-integrale-t-5-revolutions-minuscules-pour-une-theorie-du-nouveau-roman-et-autres_93753.php
  10. See review article on this volume""Vers un Nouveau Roman textuel", Acta Fabula, Nov. 2020 (vol. 21, no 10)
  11. See review article on this volume Sous les pavés la page, Acta Fabula, déc. 2019 (vol. 20, no 10)
  12. See review article on this volume""Vers un Nouveau Roman textuel", Acta Fabula, Nov. 2020 (vol. 21, no 10)
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