by René Barjavel · Pocket / Noir · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266000468
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«Les Chemins de Katmandou» is the novel by René Barjavel published in 1969 by Pocket / Noir in paperback (381 pages, in French).
Olivier travels to Kathmandu in search of his father, who left bourgeois life for Eastern mysticism. With Jane and other young people from around the world, he follows the routes to that city of temples at the foot of the Himalayas. The novel pits West against East, generational rebellion, the yearning for freedom, and the danger of self-destruction.
For readers of French literature and stories of travel and spiritual quest, with echoes of the counterculture of the 1960s.
René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.
