by Catherine Clément · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724129457
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«A Senhora» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Edições Asa in paperback (336 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel follows Beatriz de Luna, known as Gracia Nasi, a Jew born in Lisbon in 1510. Widow of a banker, she inherits a great fortune and uses it to protect the New Christians from the Inquisition. Persecuted by the Habsburgs and the Popes, she travels through Lisbon, Antwerp, Venice and Ferrara; in the latter she promotes the printing of the first Bible in Ladino, the Ferrara Bible.
The novel was originally published as «La Senora» in 1992; this Portuguese edition, translated by Maria do Rosário Mendes, came out in April 1994.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Sephardic diaspora, the Inquisition and the European Renaissance.
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.
