Adèle Yon returns to the archive behind her bestseller
Six years after she began researching her great-grandmother's forced psychiatric internment, the author discusses a new book that revisits her working method, in an interview with Le Monde.
Adèle Yon, whose book "Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth" became a bestseller built around the story of her great-grandmother, diagnosed as schizophrenic and committed against her will, has given an interview to Le Monde about a new work, "Enquête sur le double fantôme." In it, according to the newspaper, she returns to the method she used to construct her original investigation and writing.
Cela fait six ans que je vis avec les matériaux de "Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth", ça laisse des traces.
Adèle Yon, to Le Monde
The interview, published October 6 on Le Monde's books pages, centers on how years spent with the same archival material shape a writer's long-term relationship to a subject. No further details on the content, structure or publication date of "Enquête sur le double fantôme" were given in the material available to this desk.
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