Lucie's long voyage

by Alina Reyes

An erotic journey of self-discovery, with shifts of time and place, which explores the mystery of sexuality and the multiple identities of woman. After getting lost in the mountains, a young woman ends up living in a cave with a bear, which becomes her lover. By the author of "The Butcher".

Genres: Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Alina Reyes is the pen-name of Aline Patricia Nardone, a French writer best known for her literary treatment of eroticism.

Reviews

[Julia Jewles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastically erotic, from one dreamy paragraph to another.
Discusses all different types of Love and actually parallels her love for Bear to a Human Love ("is this not being human?" about her Affection for the bear), maternal Love, lust, beauty, vanity, passion, dreams.
Reminds me of Inception, where the public finds out it could've ALL been a dream since she falls asleep in the first few pages. She describes her dreams, emotions and sensations with an intersectedness during her monologues which could insinuate she is dreaming, and later on, that the man in the second half of the book is telling a series of dreams.
Language is somewhat simple.

[Emma Filtness · Rating 3 out of 5]

This novella is like three or four different stories very loosely connected. Plot-wise, it doesn't make much sense but as usual Reyes' prose is gorgeous. This reads like a fever-dream.