Place Names : A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book

Ricardou, Jean

ISBN 10: 1564784789 / ISBN 13: 9781564784780

Editore: Deep Vellum Publishing, 2007

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Which came first, words or things? Are your words yours, or someone else’s? And what do the Crusades have to do with it? And what do ants have to do with it?

Jean Ricardou has been given something of a bad rap: he’s widely seen as a difficult writer, or worse yet, as an intensely serious one. However, he easily sheds this weighty reputation in his hilariously playful new novel about the notoriously complex world of literary theory. Supplying his readers with everything they need to know to navigate this world, Ricardou uses his own irreverent interpretation of deconstructive theory to ask questions about language and history, theory and life, and all the intriguing connections between them.

"With remarkable mastery, Jean Ricardou creates a fiction, like those of Borges, causes the conventional foundations of reality to tremble, and that brings with it, through its infinitely reflected simulacra, the collapse of reason beneath the vestiges of a question with no answer."-Alain Clerval

"Ingenious, facetious, . . . and skillfully constructed, it offers its readers the discovery, at once surprising and captivating, of a love affair, conceived in the arcane of language, between narration and fiction, and--why not?--between dreams and realities."-André Dalmas

"[Because] of its extreme eccentricity, Ricardou’s work sets its own traditions far from the more familiar forms of postmodern fiction." -Tobin Jones

"[Place Names] must be read and experienced rather than talked about."-Leon S. Roudiez

Informazioni sugli autori: Born in 1932, Jean Ricardou began his literary career in the context of the New Novel, with L’Observatoire de Cannes (1963), but soon began to push the New Novel into the realm of postmodernism, with such experimental works as La Prise de Constantinople(1965), Le Théâtre des métamorphoses (1982), and La Cathédrale de Sens (1988). He has also written extensively on the theory of the New Novel, and for many years has directed an annual colloquium at Cérisy-la-Salle, France, devoted to the problems of textual theory.

Jean Ricardou is 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

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Titolo: Place Names : A Brief Guide to Travels in ...
Casa editrice: Deep Vellum Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good