recit

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

A short story.

[…] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost.

2

A narration.

3

A recitative.

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