Never to Return is a witty, penetrating account of a woman's inner
journey to understanding through her encounter with Freudian
psychoanalysis. On the brink of turning fifty, Elena suddenly falls
into a deep depression. Her husband has gone off to New York to
celebrate the triumph of his cinematic career, accompanied not by
his wife but by a lover half her age. Meanwhile her grown sons have
left home to pursue their own lives and relationships. Fearing
aging, loneliness, a failed love, and a failed life, she begins
sessions with a reputable Argentine psychoanalyst. Elena's
experience of analysis provides the occasion for an intense
scrutiny of self and world, while it raises basic questions about
the psychoanalytic method and its implications for female emotional
development. Complex and ambivalent, her narration offers both a
sharply satiric view of analysis and a consideration of its
possible power and effectiveness.
Esther Tusquets is a leading figure on the Spanish literary
scene. Since the early sixties she has directed the distinguished
Barcelona publishing house Editorial Lumen. Never to Return is the
fourth in a series of critically acclaimed novels characterized by
a winding, associative style that captures the vibrant ebb and flow
of a woman's inner life.
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