by Catherine Clément · STYRIA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496626287
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«Azul acero» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Styria in paperback (367 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows several generations of two families in twentieth-century Paris: Georges, a student who fled the tsarist prisons, and Sipa, daughter of Central European Jews; along with Louise and Etienne, French bourgeois. Their descendants cross paths on the eve of the Second World War: André, an antisemitic Catholic heir, falls in love with Rébecca, of Jewish origin. Later, Natacha experiences the events of May '68 while her family history intertwines with the great social changes of the century.
Novel by Catherine Clément, also author of «El viaje de Théo» and «La sultana». The cover shows two silhouettes on a bench with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Published in 2007 by Styria De Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.L.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in family sagas and the social evolution of France during the twentieth century.
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.
