by Catherine Clément · Calmann-Lévy · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702825099
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«Martin et Hannah» is the novel by Catherine Clément, published by Calmann-Lévy in hardcover (308 pages, in French).
In 1975, in Germany, Martin Heidegger faces the end of his life while his wife Elfride and the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, former student and lover of the thinker, clash in an emotional struggle. Catherine Clément combines intellectual biography with fiction to ask which of the two loved him more deeply.
The novel is written in French, its subtitle is «roman» and the first edition came out in France in 1999.
Readers interested in twentieth-century philosophy, in Hannah Arendt and in the novel with an intellectual background.
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.
