Alexis Curvers was a French-speaking Belgian writer. He was married to hellenistMarie Delcourt.
Biography
Alexis Curvers' mother died when he was three years old and his father when he was nineteen. He followed the courses of Marie Delcourt at the University of Liège. Appointed a professor of rhetoric at Alexandria, he returned to Liege where he married Marie Delcourt. In 1933 he published an article entitled De l'objection de conscience which led him to be excluded from teaching. In 1940, he took refuge in the south of France, where he met other writers at Mme Mayrisch, before he returned to Liège. In 1957, his novel Tempo di Roma, rejected by Éditions Gallimard but published by Éditions Robert Laffontthanks to Marie de Vivier achieved great success. Tempo di Roma obtained the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1957 and was adapted to the cinema by Denys de La Patellière in 1963 under the same title: . In 1960, Alexis Curvers received the prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco for all his work.
Works
Novels
1937: Bourg-le-Rond, Paris, Gallimard,
1939: Printemps chez des ombres, Paris, Gallimard,
1942: La Famille Passager, études et contes, Brussels, Libris, 1942..
1958: Mercredi des cendres, in Vingt nouvelles belges, Verviers, Marabout, 1958. p. 66 sqq.
1955: Entre deux anges, chroniques et nouvelles, Brussels, Audace et le Rond-Point, 1955.
1967: Jean ou le monastère des deux saints Jean, in Prénoms
1937: Le Ruban chinois in Reflets, Brussels, Noël
1954: Le Massacre des innocents et Le ruban chinois, Paris, Les belles lectures
Poetry
Cahier de poésie , typography François Bernouard, Paris, 1949.
La Flûte enchantée, Cahiers d'art poétique, published in Liège from 1953 to 1962.
Theatre
Ce vieil Œdipe, four-act satirical drama, prose and verse, after Sophocles, Brussels, De Visscher, 1947..
Essais and critics
De l'objection de conscience, état de la question, le Flambeau, June 1933 and Brussels, Finacom, 1933.
Sur la réforme de l'orthographe et la pédagogie nouvelle, réflexions d'un observateur, in "Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature Françaises de Belgique", 1954. Reproduit dans le Bulletin de l'Association des Classiques de l'Université de Liège, nE2, 1954, p. 8-22.
Pie XII, le pape outragé, Paris, Laffont, 1964.
La théologie secrète de la prétendue Adoration de l'Agneau, in "Approches de l'Art", mélanges d'esthétique et de sciences de l'Art presented to Arsène Soreil, Brussels, Renaissance du Livre, 1973.
Une clef architecturale de l'Agneau mystique des frères Van Eyck, in "Il était douze fois Liège", Liège, Mardaga, 1980.
Entretien Georges Moucheron - Alexis Curvers, Mons, R.T.B.F., centre de production du Hainaut, s.d.
Collaborations
Alexis Curvers collabiorated with the magazines Les cahiers mosans, Le courrier des poètes, La gaillarde, Revue Générale Belge, Marginales, Raf, Savoir et beauté, Le flambeau, Synthèses, Empreintes, Cahiers du Nord, Itinéraires, Lecture et tradition...
Participation to the anthology Il était douze fois Liège, Liège, 1980 considered as a response to La Belgique malgré tout by published the same year prior to the which Curvers didn't sign.
