Australian Journal of French Studies
What Happened, Mr. Ricardou? A Theatre of Metamorphoses
Abstract
This article examines the institutional trajectory and theoretical legacy of Jean Ricardou. I begin by observing the reactions to the news of Ricardou’s death in 2016, both in the public press and in elegiac texts that circulated online. I then turn to Ricardou’s institutional transformation from theoretical leading man in the sixties to background figure as