by Catherine Clement · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780002257770
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«Theo's Odyssey» is the novel by Catherine Clément, published by Flamingo in paperback (575 pages, in English).
Theo, a fourteen-year-old Parisian boy, falls ill and his aunt Martha decides to travel the world with him in search of a cure. The journey becomes an itinerary through the great religions and sacred places of different cultures, which Theo observes with curiosity and scepticism; an enjoyable introduction to spirituality and ways of believing.
Work translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz; first instalment of the series «Le Voyage de Théo».
Will appeal to young and adult readers curious about religion, spirituality and cultural travel.
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.
