The Solitude of the Mammoth
The Solitude of the Mammoth
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Her husband's betrayal turns the death of their love into an obsession. For Bérénice, revenge is the only bulwark against the mammoth's oblivion.<div> Bérénice saw her husband's betrayal and the collapse of their marriage as a denial of all her years of loyal service to her beloved and their children. The end of "her love" became an obsession. Her revenge was the only possible alternative, to avoid sinking into oblivion—the oblivion of extinct species, the oblivion of the mammoth.</div><div><br></div><div> She wages a battle between despair and cruelty, the two weapons of her anger. At first, she considers a radical solution: physically eliminating the man responsible for her suffering and her aimless wandering. But on the dubious advice of a dubious manual, her revenge takes more subtle, more ludicrous turns, creating comical situations where cynicism vies with the creative energy of despair.</div><div><br></div>