La création littéraire, entre paresse et procrastination. Le cas d’Alexis Curvers
Literary creation, between laziness and procrastination. The case of Alexis Curvers

Author(s): Catherine Gravet
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Source Material
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Francophone belgian letters; archives; Alexis Curvers; laziness and procrastination; slow literary creation;
Summary/Abstract: The edition of the Alexis Curvers’ diary (Liège, 1906-1992) allowed us to discover a man anxious to produce an artwork, a novelist terribly anxious in the face of the blank page. Despite all the reserve and modesty, Curvers admits this anguish: he receives many encouragements but also suffers the reproaches – even the mockery – of his friends, wife, mentors who believe that he does not produce enough or fast enough. He took a long time to finish his masterpiece, Tempo di Roma, finally published in 1957 and when he died, we will find in his drawers only one unfinished novel, although begun shortly after the publication of tempo di Roma, Les Détours obscurs, whose title could be considered a metaphor for the novelist’s writing process.

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