by Catherine Clément · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253064794
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«La Senora» is the historical novel by Catherine Clément, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (445 pages, in French).
The novel follows Dona Gracia Nasi, a Jew born among the Marranos, who flees the Inquisition and travels across 16th-century Europe until she finds refuge in the Ottoman Empire. Dona Gracia uses her fortune to fund aid for other persecuted Jews and the publication of the Ferrara Bible, navigating between faith, banking, and diplomacy.
For readers interested in the figure of Dona Gracia Nasi and the Sephardic exile.
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.
