Place Names: A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564784780)

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.

Author: Jean Ricardou
ISBN-10: 1564784789
ISBN-13: 9781564784780
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.46w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/10/2007 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2007 pg. 885
Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 65