Stavisky L'homme que j'ai connu

by Joseph Kessel

À l'occasion de la sortie du film d'Alain Resnais sur Stavisky, voici une nouvelle édition du livre que Joseph Kessel publia en 1934. Atyant eu l'occasion de rencontrer très souvent l'extraordinaire aventurier, il en fait un portrait original et véridique. Un historique de l'affaire Stavisky, par Raymond Thévenin, complète ce document.

Unknown Binding

First published May 2, 1974

About the author

Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.

Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also a member of the Académie française from 1962 to 1979. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French Forces.

Joseph Kessel died in Avernes, Val-d'Oise. He is buried in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris.