Jean Ricardou
Encyclopedia
Jean Ricardou is a French
writer and theorist of the nouveau roman
literary movement. To date, only one of his books, 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
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
writer and theorist of the nouveau roman
Nouveau roman
The nouveau roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new...
literary movement. To date, only one of his books, Les lieux-dits (translated as Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book by Jordan Stump for Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Illinois in the United States, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser known, often avant-garde works...
) has been translated into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.
Works
- L'observatoire de Cannes (1961)
- La prise de Constantinople (1965)
- Les lieux-dits, petit guide d'un voyage dans le livre (1969)
- Nouveaux problèmes du roman (1978)
- La cathédrale de Sens (1988)
- Une maladie chronique (1989)