Catherine Clément

"En 1871, la Commune de Paris, la révolution la plus généreuse que la Terre ait portée, embrase les cœurs et les rues. "J'avais beau me souvenir que notre Commune voulait refaire le monde sous le feu de deux armées, celle des Prussiens et celle du Foutriquet installé à Versailles, j'avais beau me dire chaque jour que la Commune était foutue d'avance, eh bien, elle avançait." Catherine Clément raconte avec fièvre ces mois d'espoirs et de rêves, jusqu'à la fameuse "Semaine sanglante". Son roman convoque des figures historiques devenues légendaires (Louise Michel, Charles Delescluze, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Georges Clemenceau) mais aussi d'inoubliables anonymes, qui réinventent le récit de ces jours tragiques et glorieux. Un couple anime l'histoire : le tout juste nommé ministre du Travail, Léo Frankel, un juif hongrois, et la sublime Élisabeth Dmitrieff, jeune Russe ascétique et flamboyante, envoyée par Marx au cœur de la tourmente. Savoureux, haletant, d'une intraitable liberté de ton, ce roman donne à voir une Commune enfin démythifiée, plus proche de nous qu'elle ne le fut jamais."--Back cover.

If Catherine Clément took to writing the Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan, it was not only to reconnect with her lost youth. It was an act of fidelity. She set out to portray her own private Lacan, the figure she kept behind other people's gloss and commentary.

The story of Mahatma Gandhi is the story of India. This book chronicles the life of the extraordinary man who led his people to independence from the British Empire in 1947. Learn how this deeply spiritual, charismatic leader changed the course of history by using pacifism and fasting as political weapons.

"In November 1996, Catherine Clement and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Clement, writing from Dakar, Senegal, approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view and Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and fundamental question: Is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine? The two voices of the book work in tandem, fleshing out ideas, blending together into a melody of experience. Two women, writing to each other about two themes, have produced a dialogue that delves into the mysteries of a woman's experience of belief, the relationship between faith and sexuality, the body and the senses - an experience, they argue, women feel with special intensity. Although their discourse is not necessarily about theology, Clement and Kristeva consider the role of women and femininity in the religions of the world, from Christianity and Judaism to Confucianism and African animism. The authors are the first to admit that what they have undertaken is "as impossible to accomplish as it is fascinating." Nevertheless, their lively, free-minded exchange succeeds in raising questions that are perhaps more important to ask than to answer."--BOOK JACKET.

Elle mourut à cheval habillée en garçon, les rênes entre les dents, une épée dans chaque main et ses perles au cou, tuée d'une balle dans le dos. Ses ennemis les Anglais l'appelaient Jézabel, ou Jeanne d'Arc, comme la sorcière française, et ces événements se passaient dans le ventre de l'Inde, en plein dix-neuvième siècle, lorsque les " negros " indigènes, les peaux sombres, les fameux " cipayes ", firent la guerre à leurs maîtres blancs. On les appelait alors " John Company ", surnom de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, forte de 250 000 soldats indiens. Trop d'humiliations, trop de rajas détrônés, trop d'exploitation, de brimades, toujours pour le commerce ... Un jour, tout explosa. L'insurrection naquit, irrésistible. Elle trouva ses chefs, et parmi eux, cette femme. Jeune veuve de trente ans, combattante émérite, elle fut le seul chef de guerre à mourir au combat. Ensuite, tout s'arrêta. La guerre d'indépendance avait duré deux ans, deux terribles années de victoires, de massacres. Quand sa guerrière mourut, l'Inde cessa d'être libre. Manu, dite " la Chérie ", était reine de Jhansi et, encore aujourd'hui, les petits Indiens apprennent à l'école la chanson qui célèbre sa gloire.

"Germany, 1975. Two women nearing the end of their lives come together at the bedside of an old man, having spent the last fifty years vying for first place in his heart. While he slumbers in the grip of nightmares, the two enemies sit in a nearby room and declare a truce. Who are the players in this awkward love triangle?" "One is the old man's wife, a woman who has played her role as the devoted mother and the obedient, bourgeois Hausfrau to the Great Man and tyrannical husband. The other is his former student and lover, nearly twenty years his junior; the Jewish intellectual consumed by her clearsightedness. Despite the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between them, they have sustained their passion for five decades. And he is the brilliant and famous philosopher, tormented by his Nazi past." "This fugue for three voices reveals the imprint of the century's greatest tragedy: for the three characters are internationally acclaimed philosopher Martin Heidegger; his wife, Elfriede; and famed social and political philosopher Hannah Arendt."--BOOK JACKET.

"The Call of the Trance is a magnificent book that takes us to the unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of witches, Catherine Clément explores in simple but scholarly terms the responses that civilizations have offered to the humanistic need for escape from the body. These 'eclipses' from life and reality, pursued by people across cultures, are elusive and invariably inexpressible"--Jacket.

Enquête à travers le monde, après la mort en Inde, à quatre-vingt ans, de la déesse Amma, la Mère. Des témoins et des proches racontent comment Rachel Ephraïm, juive d'Egypte, ancienne cantatrice française, a fondé un ashram et est devenue déesse en Inde.

An unconventional Frenchwoman takes her nephew who is suffering from leukemia on a round-the-world trip, opening his eyes to new cultures and religions. In New York, Theo is given a lesson in the Protestant faith.