The novelist Adeline Dieudonné presents Thursday in the program "It makes good" her second novel, entitled "Kérosène".

The Belgian author, a fan of Brussels comedians, explains how she used the open stages last September and October to test her text and refine her new book.

INTERVIEW

It's a writing process never seen before.

Belgian novelist Adeline Dieudonné tested on stage passages from her second and new book, entitled 

Kérosène

, whose multiple stories take place in an Ardennes gas station, on a summer night.

Guest of the show 

It

feels

good

, the author explains Thursday at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff why she made this surprising choice, and how he changed his writing.

She went to an open stage, a nursery for future shows that she is fond of.

"With us in Belgium, the theaters were able to reopen a little bit in September-October, but at an ultra-low level," recalls Adeline Dieudonné.

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And his reading of the draft versions of his texts lent themselves particularly well to sanitary restrictions.

"What was complicated was to have profitable shows. Because you can't put a whole set and lots of actors on stage when there are only half the spectators in the room", specifies Adeline Dieudonné.

"Obviously, my readings don't cost anything: I just come on stage with my little texts."

"There are some suspenseful scenes that I hadn't anticipated"

"What is frustrating is that as a novelist I do not see people when they read my book", regrets the author, who found there an original solution to her problem.

"I find it fabulous to see the reactions of the public", explains Adeline Dieudonné, who considers having had "the chance" to be able to "test a little" her texts in front of an audience.

And this device, usual for a humorist but surprising for a novelist, allowed him to retouch his text.

"I rewrote according to the reaction of the public," she confirms, before giving very concrete examples.

"There are for example suspense scenes that I had not anticipated. I did not realize that it was so creepy, I understood it by seeing people react in the room."

She therefore rewrote her passages to deepen the suspense.

And her readings also helped her on the comic passages of the book.

“On stage, you immediately see what works and what doesn't,” she observes.

"In the end, I take a lot of inspiration from comedians."