Cherche Midi
Publisher
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Stock
Parution date
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2000
EAN
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9782234052871
Description
Catherine Clément was born on the rue du Cherche Midi in Paris in 1939. She left the neighborhood for 60 years, then returned, then fled again. Now she’s back for good, and has written a compelling essay about this neighborhood she inhabited as a child. But one of the sidewalks is forever haunted: the boutiques are the same, but the people have changed. Behind the shop widows once peered the men and women who denounced her mother, Rivka, whose Jewish beauty could not be kept secret. A bit farther down the street is the Hotel Lutetia, where Rivka took her to watch for those returning from the concentration camps, although she never found her grandparents there. In a flood of funny and cruel memories, Catherine Clément delivers here a superb and moving portrait.
Author
Catherine Clément : Essayist and novelist, Catherine Clément co-authored The Feminine and the Sacred, forthcoming from Columbia University Press, with Julia Kristeva. Martin and Hannah is forthcoming from Prometheus.
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