Dépouiller des archives pour éditer des textes « résiduels » : le cas Alexis Curvers
Looking through the Archives to Edit Remaining Texts: The Case of Alexis Curvers

Summary/Abstract: The novelist Alexis Curvers is the authorof the famous Tempo di Roma (1957). The Belgiannovelist, who is actually considered as minor orquite irrelevant in the French literary society,has left behind him a lot of archives, which canbe referred to as “literary remains.” What is thepurpose of publishing those “remains”? Lettersgive us information about Alexis Curvers’ life aswell as many other aspects of literary creation.His diary, two unfinished stories, “La vérité vousdélivrera” (Truth will free you) and “Les détoursobscurs” (Dark detours), thousands of brief notes;this is all the work Curvers did not publish duringhis lifetime. Our reflection on these unpublishedtexts addresses some key issues about the man’screative act (if any), more precisely about Curvers’inability to complete a piece of writing and thereasons for publishing some posthumous texts.

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