Lives Dedicated to Writing (Des Vies D'écriture)

What nourishes writing? This special issue reveals the mechanisms behind literary creation through the following parts: 1 The Intimate Choice: writing as radical self-exposure. Plath, Barbara, Carrère, Auster, Woolf 2 The Weight of History: when world events affect writing. Appelfeld, Wharton, Greene, Zweig. 3 Living to tell it: when adventure, travels and journalism inspire writing. Martin, Kessel, Bouvier, Le Carré 4 Dreaming the World: when imagination is heart of fiction. Tolkien, Dickinson, Modiano, Calvino, Verne The aim of the project: understanding why writers put pen to paper.