Catherine Clément
Catherine Clément ( born 1939 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) is a French writer, feminist, philosopher and psychologist.
Clément comes from a Catholic-Jewish family. She studied philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne, where she taught as a scientific assistant 14 years old. She then worked as a cultural editor of the Paris daily Le Matin. In 1969 she went to the French Ministry of Culture for four years to India. She lived with her husband in Dakar before she returned to Paris. Her brother Jérôme Clément is a board member of the German - French TV channel ARTE.
Works
- The woman at the opera
- The Senyora
- Gandhi
- The Holy and the Crazy
- Love in India
- Women of the Night
- The smile of the Sultana
- Martin and Hannah
- Theo's journey ( original: Le Voyage de Théo ), 1997
- Theo's second trip
- Tristes Tropiques. Opera in 3 acts. Libretto (based on the book by Claude Lévi- Strauss). Music ( 1990-95 ): Georges Aperghis