Écrire quand même

The pandemic has abruptly suspended the writing of my novel in progress, Ce que c’est qu’une existence. Apart from worrying for my loved ones, which impaired my concentration, I felt like all my drafts belonged to a “world before.” How obsolete they had become. And I relate here the solutions I found to “write anyway:” Write a writing journal or rather non-writing journal (in which I pondered the pressure of the news, the necessity of not being deaf to it, all the while refusing a utilitarian position); write a fantasist novel from the perspective of one of the two protagonists from Journée américaine, which I claimed to be translating, and which had thus been written in the “world before;” start writing Ce que c’est qu’une existence again through the characters’ memories; make minute changes to account for what we were living (delicately place a mask on the faces of Dorris and the flight attendant, for instance); and finally include my inquiries in the novel itself. Bring my reader inside my workshop

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