Carmelle St. Gerard-Lopez 
Cléo 

CLO est un conte, qui sinscrit en dcal dans la reprsentation que lon se fait gnralement du conte traditionnel. Il est un conte philosophique, qui entrane le lecteur, le narrateur et lauditeur dans les sinuosits dun rcit o se ctoient : limaginaire, lesthtique littraire et lart potique, pour mieux servir de cadre dexpression et de transmission aux diffrents messages que vhicule le personnage dans sa longue qute… En effet :

Dans chaque famille, dans chaque pays,
partout travers le monde,
il y a au moins un Clo qui se tat.

Carmelle St.Gerard-Lopez

Over de auteur

Carmelle St.Gerard-Lopez is Haitian and she has been living in the US since 2004. She’s gone from New Orleans to New York, teaching French to international students and adults. After Katrina, she has to move to New York.
Carmelle St.Gerard-Lopez is a psychologist/teacher and author publisher. In addition to that, she has been writing several plays and directing the stage for must of them. For example: ENTREES-SORTIES/ IN AND OUT (Producers’ Club Theatre, Manhattan, February 2009 and AINSI SOIT-IL, York College, Queens, April 2010)
CLEO represents one of hers unpublised Tales from the ‘TALES FOR ADULTS’ COLLECTION.’ . Its read extract version released on DVD, has been amazingly presented by Dr. Clara Guila Kessous (Havard University).

Cléo is a tale that departs from the traditional genre of storytelling. Its philosophical tone results in a fusion of imagination, literary aesthetics and poetry where reader, narrator, and listener alike are drawn into an intricate narrative web. It also provides an ideal framework for the expression and transmission of the various messages symbolized by the character’s quest:
“In every household of every homeland
Everywhere in the world
There lives a Cléo that remains silent.”