by Catherine Clément · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221054857
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«Adrienne Lecouvreur, ou Le cœur transporté» is the novel by Catherine Clément published in paperback by Robert Laffont (299 pages, in French).
The narrative follows Adrienne Lecouvreur, a French actress who triumphed on the stages of the eighteenth century. Catherine Clément recreates her career and her passions, offering a close portrait of a woman marked by the theater, showing both the brilliance of her successes and the personal conflicts that surrounded her.
It belongs to the collection «Elle était une fois», from Robert Laffont.
Aimed at readers with a command of French who enjoy literary fiction set in eighteenth-century theater and portraits of actresses.
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.
