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Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel |
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En juillet 1968, Gaëtane Vadel rencontre Bernard Lamarche. Très vite, ils enchaînent les meublés et associent, hors mariage, leurs noms respectifs en un seul bloc, créant ainsi une sorte de trait d’union amoureux qui deviendra leur signature. « Le nouveau nom, issu de la fusion clandestine et magique de deux états civils, les positionne tous les deux au début d’un cycle de vie. Ils sont coauteurs du roman de leur vie, d’une fiction et d’une imposture juridique. »
Avec délicatesse et pudeur, l’auteure narre les circonstances de ce « hold-up patronymique » aux conséquences troublantes, et mène de front une réflexion sur ce geste transgressif envers les normes de la nomination, pour mieux éclairer deux destins et une époque. |
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In July 1968, Gaëtane Vadel meets Bernard Lamarche at the PUF bookstore in the boulevard Saint-Michel where he works in the stockroom. He is an autodidact and poet, fascinated by surrealism, at odds with his rigidly moralist Catholic family. She is a philosophy student, in tune with the libertarian aspirations of post-May. Though not yet married, they associate their two last names, making one and thus creating a sort of romantic hyphen, used by their close friends, which will become their public signature. Neither divorce nor the tragic destiny of Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, who will take his own life in 2000, will sunder the original pact of this “double name”.
Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel’s sober language is meant to be descriptive and precise but is equally vigorous and sensitive, especially when, at half a century’s distance, she pays tribute to this initial act of emancipation. This is a true false auto fiction in the form of a philosophical essay, one that refrains from exhibiting the family secrets, remaining on the crest of memories and examining, through the evolution of moral standards; recent laws and technology, how one can escape the destiny of genealogical determination. Why this book ? To reinject the last name with the double and its trouble.
“With this narrative of a high quality, Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel makes a certainly late entrance in literature, but twice striking. ”
Le Monde des Livres |
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