by Catherine Clément · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724116686
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«A Valsa Inacabada» is the romantic and historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Edições ASA in paperback (400 pages, in Portuguese).
It is inspired by a real episode in the life of Sissi: the meeting in 1874 between Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Franz Taschnik, and a secret love that both maintain for decades through letters, three waltzes and a poem. The action takes place in Strauss's Vienna, with Balkan wars, an epidemic, refugees, scandals and suicides.
The work was originally published in 1994; this Portuguese edition is from 1995 and was translated by Maria do Rosário Mendes.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the figure of Sissi, the Habsburg court and late 19th-century Vienna.
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.
