Les Chemins de Katmandou
Author | René Barjavel |
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Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Presses de la Cité |
Publication date | 1969 |
Pages | 380 |
Les Chemins de Katmandou ("the roads to Kathmandu") is a 1969 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of a man who joins a group of hippies who live and travel in Nepal, where they take drugs and practice free love in the belief that it will free them from materialism, only to meet disappointment.
Adaptation[]
The novel was the adaptation of the 1969 film The Pleasure Pit, directed by André Cayatte and starring Renaud Verley and Jane Birkin. The film had 1,635,664 admissions in French cinemas.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Les Chemins de Katmandou". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-05-23.
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- 1969 French novels
- French novels adapted into films
- French-language novels
- Hippie movement
- Literature related to the sexual revolution
- Novels about drugs
- Novels by René Barjavel
- Novels set in Nepal
- 1960s novel stubs
- Erotic novel stubs