Witches’ Sabbath by Maurice Sachs book review Since it’s October and technically spooky...

Witches’ Sabbath by Maurice Sachs book review

Since it’s October and technically spooky time you’re probably expecting this to be a review about an actual witches’ sabbath. Alas, it is not. This book is about a French writer/play write/lots of other things that may or may not have been legal.

This book is an autobiography and it tells of this Frenchman’s rather unusual life. He didn’t make the most correct decisions, he didn’t plan things as accordingly as he could have, but he was just trying to wade through life like everyone else.

He had problems accepting himself for who he was, he plummeted several times during his twenties, worked many different jobs, some including fraud, but he never abandoned his writing. It was his therapy, as he states in his book, sure he may not have stuck with it entirely at times, but it was true passion.

Honestly, this book left me speechless. He addresses issues a lot of people don’t like talking about or just don’t understand and he talks about his mental state and the hardships he went through. He expresses the kind of relationships he had and how each one affected him. His thoughts are profound, and by the time I was finished reading this I just wanted to give him a hug.

What I liked about this so much was that he wasn’t perfect, and he went to no extent to appear that way. He was as he was.