Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work? In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue gives a tantalizing glimpse of the contour of time shaped by inspiration rather than the movement of the clock. Moving from the philosophical to the personal, she provides a view of how each of her novels has come into existence – the personal context in which each came to be and the social context in which each was received.LaRue uses two important words in her approach to this between-time of creative possibility. The first, meander, from the Greek name for Maiandros, has come to signify wandering at random. Like Northrop Frye, she distinguishes between Kairos, the mysterious, unpredictable moment when the creative impulse is released, and chronos, or passing time. This ephemeral moment, as explained by LaRue, is of time but not in it. Given this paradox, it should come as no surprise that LaRue’s between-time of writing creatively has no name. Mortality brings time and its passage unceasingly to mind. Yet, the mental action of moving freely through meandering associations during the time between works becomes the criterion for thinking creatively.Une fois une Auvre achevA ©e, quand et comment A ©crivains et artistes abordent-ils leur prochaine crA ©ation? Dans cet ouvrage passionnant, Monique LaRue nous donne un avant-goA t allA ©chant des contours du temps tracA ©s, dans ce cas, par notre imaginaire et non par les aiguilles de l'horloge. Naviguant entre la philosophie et l'expA ©rience personnelle, elle nous livre un aperAu de la genAse de chacun de ses livres – tant les circonstances personnelles dans lesquelles chacun a vu le jour que le contexte social qui les a accueillis.Deux mots clA ©s A ©mergent de la dA ©marche de LaRue dans son exploration de cet
entre deux temps
du potentiel crA ©atif. Le premier,
mA ©andre , provenant du terme grec
Maiandros
qui veut dire
errer au hasard . A l'instar de Northrop Frye, elle distingue entre
Kairos , le moment mystA ©rieux et imprA ©visible oA(1) l'A ©lan crA ©ateur est libA ©rA ©, et
Chronos , le temps qui passe. Pour Larue, ce moment A ©phA ©mAre, surgit du temps sans toutefois en faire partie. De par ce paradoxe, il n'est guAre surprenant de constater que l’ entre-temps
de l'A ©criture crA ©ative dont traite LaRue est innommA ©, Notre mortalitA © nous renvoie inlassablement au temps. Pourtant, la pensA ©e crA ©ative exige une activitA © mentale qui A ©volue librement, serpentant, au cours de ce temps entre deux Auvres, au grA © des alA ©as des associations mA ©andres.