by Catherine Clément · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702120620
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La Senora» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (418 pages, in French).
The novel recreates the life of Dona Gracia Nasi, La Senora, a Jew born among the Marranos. Persecuted by the Inquisition, expelled from Lisbon, Antwerp, Venice and Ferrara, she aids the victims of intolerance and commissions the Ferrara Bible, the first in Judeo-Spanish, in sixteenth-century Europe divided by religious conflicts.
The novel was originally published in 1992. The cover reproduces the oil painting «La Fanciulle jaune» (Isaac and Rebecca), by Rembrandt, held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
For readers of historical fiction interested in sixteenth-century Europe, the Inquisition and the history of Sephardic Jews.
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.
