Lucie's Long Voyage

London England: Methuen. Hardback. Translated from the French by David Watson. A young woman, Lucie, goes to visit a friend in the mountains. On her first day she gets lost among the high peaks, and ends up living in a cave with a bear. Isolated from civilisation, she reverts to the state of a wild animal, and she and the bear become lovers. Time passes and we see, how the mother of a young child, wandering the streets of a labytinthine city and visiting the grave of an old sea captain. She meets an old writer, whom she reminds of a woman he loved in his youth, and listes to the strange story of his passion for 'Lusi' and of her mysterious and terrifying transformation....Lycie's voyage is a journey of self-discovery which becomes an exploration of the multiple identities of woman. With its merging of the sensual, earthy quality already displaed in The Butcher and the dreamlike imagery of the fairy tale, this novel confirms Alina Ryes as one of France's most imaginative and original young writers. 120 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. 1st Uk Edition. 1992.