“Revertir” by Constance Joly: two women adrift
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In a novel with autobiographical overtones, Constance loses herself in futile loves while her mother sinks into Alzheimer's disease. (Illustration photo) Goncalo Costa / Mangostar - stock.adobe.com
In a story with autobiographical overtones, Constance Joly recounts with a melancholy full of fantasy her romantic drift, while her mother sinks into Alzheimer's disease.
On the cusp of fifty, Constance is wasting away in a marriage where she remains in her husband's shadow and where the bodies have never been able to speak to each other. She clings to one lover, then another, like lifelines. In a striking parallel, she loses herself as the words and memories of her mother, who has Alzheimer's , fade away: always in search of affection, one loses herself in vain loves, the other, disoriented by the disease, in the streets of Paris at night.
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