by Catherine Clément · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702123621
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«La valse inachevée» is the historical and romantic novel by Catherine Clément, published by Calmann-Lévy in 1994 (518 pages, in French).
Starting from a real episode in the life of Sissi, the novel reconstructs a love that barely came to exist and yet lasted decades: three waltzes, some letters and a poem. The action takes place in Strauss's Vienna, the Habsburg court and a Europe shaken by the Balkan wars.
French edition of 518 pages; the cover bears the subtitle «roman». Catherine Clément, the author, was born in 1939.
Aimed at readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the figure of Sissi and Habsburg Europe.
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.
