by Catherine Clément · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724113715
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«A Senhora» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Edições Asa in paperback (366 pages, in Portuguese).
The historical novel follows Gracia Nasi, born Beatriz de Luna in Lisbon in 1510. After being widowed, she inherits a fortune and protects conversos persecuted by the Inquisition. The action moves through Lisbon, Antwerp, Venice and Ferrara, where she promotes the first Bible in Ladino, the famous Ferrara Bible.
The novel was originally published in 1992 under the title «La Senora»; this first Portuguese edition from Edições Asa appeared in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Sephardic diaspora, the Inquisition and the 16th-century Mediterranean.
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.
