Jean Ricardou

Jean Ricardou (17 June 1932 – 23 July 2016) 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.

• 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)

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.

• 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)

• '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

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

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

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.