Catherine Clement
Catherine Clément (* 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French writer, feminist , philosopher and psychologist .
Life
Catherine Clément - coming from a Catholic-Jewish family - studied philosophy and psychology at the École normal supérieure in Paris . She is a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss . She then taught for fourteen years as a research assistant at the Sorbonne . She then worked as the cultural editor of the Paris daily Le matin . In 1969 she went to India for four years for the French Ministry of Culture . She lived in Dakar with her husband and then returned to Paris. In 1986 Clément organized the India Year in France and in 1987 moved to New Delhi .
Her brother Jérôme Clément is a board member of the Franco-German television broadcaster ARTE .
Works
- The saint and the mad one. Religious ecstasy and psychological borderline experience. Together with Sudhir Kakar . Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-406-37334-3 .
- The Senyora. Novel from 16th century Europe. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-502-10134-5 .
- The woman in the opera. Defeated, betrayed and sold. Translated from the French by Annette Holoch. Preface by Silke Leopold . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-30440-5 .
- Gandhi. The nonviolent resistance. In the series “ Adventure History ” ( Vol. 23 ). Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-473-51023-8 .
- One love in India. Novel. Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-453-11597-2 .
- Women of the night. Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-426-61427-8 .
- The Sultan's smile. Diana, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17139-X .
- Martin and Hannah . Novel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87134-400-1 .
- Theo's trip. (original: Le Voyage de Théo ), 1997
- Theo's second trip.
- Tristes tropiques . Opera in 3 acts. Libretto (based on the book of the same name [1955] by Claude Lévi-Strauss ). Music (1990–95): Georges Aperghis
Web links
- Personal website (French)
- Literature by and about Catherine Clément in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catherine Clément: The woman in the opera. Defeated, betrayed and sold. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994, p. 1
- ↑ Silke Leopold in the foreword to Catherine Clément: The woman in the opera. Defeated, betrayed and sold. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1994, p. 12
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clement, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, feminist, philosopher and psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |