by Henry Bauchau · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742713691
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«Diotime et les lions» is the novel by Henry Bauchau, published by Actes Sud in the Babel collection, in paperback (64 pages, in French).
Between East and West lives a people descended from lions who celebrate a ritual war against the king of animals. Diotime, granddaughter of Cambyse, wants to take part in the fight although the law excludes women. Her rebellion pits her against her mother, who prefers for her singing and domestic life, and brings her closer to taboos such as desire and fear.
Second instalment of the Oedipus and Antigone series. The text, originally published in 1991, appears in the Babel collection as number 279.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and literary fiction with a mythical background.
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian political activist and psychoanalyst who is best known as an author of poetry, novels, and plays in French language.
