Place Names

Jean Ricardou

ISBN 10: 1564784789 / ISBN 13: 9781564784780

Published by Dalkey Archive Press October 2007, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Place Names
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press October 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564784789
• ISBN 13: 9781564784780
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dalkey Archive (Small Press)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jordan Stump is the noted translator of several modern French novelists, including novel prize winner Claude Simon, for whom his translation of Le Jardin des Plantes won the French American Foundation s Translation Prize.