by François Coupry, Catherine Clément · Hachette littérature générale · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010074844
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«Torero d'or» is the essay on bullfighting by François Coupry and Catherine Clément (Hachette littérature générale, 1981, 466 pages, in French).
The work examines bullfighting as a cultural phenomenon: it describes the development of the bullfight, the figure of the bullfighter and the elements of the rite, and reflects on the place of the fiesta in society and its representation in art. The text combines history, culture and critique in a journey through the world of bullfighting.
The volume includes a bibliography (pp. 465-467) and an index. Published in France, its subject falls within the field of bullfighting studies (Dewey classification 791/.82).
A work of interest to bullfighting fans and to readers of historical and cultural essays.
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.
