by Catherine Clément · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080668165
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«Pour l'amour de l'Inde» is the novel by Catherine Clément, published by Flammarion in 1993 (502 pages, in French).
The novel focuses on the relationship between Edwina Mountbatten, wife of Lord Mountbatten, and Jawaharlal Nehru during India's independence. Catherine Clément interweaves history and fiction to narrate a secret passion marked by political intrigues and the weight of the British Empire.
For readers interested in the history of India and historical figures such as Nehru and the Mountbattens.
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.
