by Catherine Clément · MR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427019782
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«El vals inacabado» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Vienna in 1874, it narrates the romance between Empress Sissi and Franz Taschnik, a 26-year-old young man, after they meet at a popular ball. He suspects the masked lady was Sissi, but they never see each other again; they exchange letters and poems until the empress's tragic end.
The subtitle is «Inspirado en un episodio de la vida de Sissi». The 1995 edition belongs to the Colección Novela Histórica. The original title, A Valsa Inacabada, was published in 1994.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the figure of Sissi and 19th-century 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.
