by Catherine Clement · Editions du Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020382038
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«Le Voyage de Théo» is the novel by Catherine Clément, published by Editions du Seuil in paperback (720 pages, in French).
Théo, a fourteen-year-old boy with an incurable illness, travels with his eccentric aunt Marthe through Europe, Asia, Africa and America. At each stop, from Jerusalem to Benares, he approaches the great religions, questions sages and reflects on God and the meaning of life on a journey that will transform him.
First instalment of the «Le Voyage de Théo» series. Work originally published in 1977; 2000 edition.
Aimed at readers interested in religion, philosophy and travel narratives with a young protagonist.
Catherine Clément is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born to a Jewish mother in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. A member of the school of French feminism and écriture féminine, she has published books with Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva. She has also made contributions to musicology; her Opera, or the Undoing of Women (1979) is notable for its emphasis on the representation of women in opera.
