David’s Reviews > Albertine disparue > Status Update

Finally, Venice. Two dozen strikingly beautiful, melancholy pages that Mark the visit. A marshaling of motifs from the earliest volumes, suggesting finality, a terminus; but where to, next? Unexpected and inconceivable marriages communicated in a city that symbolizes the unconscious, an incommunicable map. Desires persist, but loves are forgotten, all save one: that for Maman, and above that, grandmère.