As in his two previous novels, we find in Denis Michelis’ pen the themes of confinement and violence combined with the impossibility of escaping one’s fate.
État d’ivresse paints the portrait of a broken woman who, by drinking, is abusing herself. The mother of a teenager, in a state of drunkenness from morning to night, she finds herself in a permanent state of wandering and in an absolute discrepancy with the reality that surrounds her. Wife of an absent man, incapable of admitting her decline and even more so of confronting the real world, she locks herself up in her bubble, which threatens to burst in her face.
