2023-06-27 22:36:32
The novelist Ysabelle Lacamp, in Paris, in 2008. Vim / Vim/ABACA
Bruno Doucey editions hailed in a press release a “luminous woman” and “author of many successful novels”.
She was 68 years old. Ysabelle Lacamp died on June 26, in Paris. Carried away by a cancer against which she had been fighting for almost three years. It is a great novelist who is leaving, and one of the most beautiful smiles in the republic of letters. A smile that never left him, whatever the circumstances.
As an irony of fate, one of his last books was capped with the title Shadow among shadows (editions Bruno Doucey), it evoked a luminous figure of poetry: Robert Desnos. The approach with which she undertook this work is so similar to her. In May 1945, when the Terezin camp was liberated, Léo Radek was the last surviving child. The poet Robert Desnos, who has just completed a long walk, fails in this camp. His meeting with this child upsets him. It was this story that was close to her heart that she wanted to tell.
These are Les Editions Bruno Doucey, his latest publishing house, founded by Bruno Doucey et Murielle Szac, who announced the sad news. From her, notably on the occasion of the publication of Ombre chez les ombres, but also when George Sand: no to prejudice (at Actes sud Jeunesse), Doucey said: “When Ysabelle Lacamp writes, a telluric vibration runs through her, transcends her and burns her. When this fever seizes her, she celebrates the verb, powerfully dreams of her characters, and takes us with them. This is why his meeting with Robert Desnos, the volcanic poet who made words and the dead dance until his last breath, is an evidence of life. »
Read alsoShort biography of Ysabelle Lacamp
“Laughing Emotion”
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, to a French father and a mother of Korean origin, the one who graduated in Chinese and Korean first had a fine career in cinema, she played with the most great French directors: Yves Boisset, New Claude, Francis Perrin, Jacques Deray, Tony Gatlif, Roger Hanin, his playing with finesse and his Eurasian beauty won over. She also dabbled in singing.
In literature, it began with enormous best-sellers, a dozen titles at Lattès (The Dragon’s Kiss), or at Albin Michel (The Daughter of Heaven, The Blue Elephant), her golden age was between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 1990s. Afterwards, she wanted to write texts that were more like her, but which, unfortunately, sold less well than her great successes. We are thinking of The Man Without a Gun (at Seuil, 2002) or at cloud juggler (Flammarion, 2008). She was never bitter about this welcome, and invested herself in the organization of literary festivals where she put her energy at the service of the book. She was very happy to talk aboutShadow among shadows because it featured a great poet. Bruno Doucey, its editor, wrote: “In this camp of Terezin [Desnos est mort dans ce camp de concentration en Tchécoslovaquie] where it takes us, emotion is always on edge with laughter. »
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