📖 A story 🧩 Narrative form

récit

9.9

How a writer shows events in a story, for example order and style

noun
/reɪˈsiː/

Literature

: discurso narrativo

In her class, she explained how the récit differs from the actual events that inspired it.

Examples

To what, exactly, is Frederic referring in this inflated epithet, and how does Flaubert's récit provide us with its definition?

Academic text (1990)
The récit of the characters' journey was filled with unexpected twists and rich descriptions.
The author's new récit masterfully intertwines reality and fiction to engage the reader.

Synonyms

narrative

vsrécit

336 3.9

A story that describes connected events

emphasizes presentation and structure over the mere telling of events

narratio

vsrécit

9.9

A spoken or written story that explains events

focuses on how events are presented rather than on the events themselves

Antonyms

event

∞ 1.0

A planned or important thing that happens at a particular time and place

action

888 1.8

The main activity happening in a place or story

How Structured

récit

Literature

9.9

narrative

336 3.9

account

466 3.0

Surface Forms

récit singular

récits plural

Etymology

Récit comes from the Latin recitare 'to read aloud' and is related to the English recite, so in literary study a récit can mean the 'telling' itself, the structure or way events are presented, not just the events.