by Catherine Clément · Martínez Roca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427017337
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«La Senhora: La epopeya de los Sefardíes» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by Martínez Roca in paperback (348 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a woman who, upon being widowed prematurely, takes control of a commercial, banking and shipping empire at the beginning of the 16th century. Between business and dangers, the plot interweaves her struggle for survival with the history of the Sephardic people.
The novel was published in 1993 in the Historical Novel collection, translated by Manuel Serrat Crespo.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the 16th century and the history of the Sephardim.
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.
