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Witches' Sabbath (1946)

di Maurice Sachs

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Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral?" He recounts how, as a young man, he befriended Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, both of whom he stole from, as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief). He tells of when, in 1925, he converted to Catholicism and entered a seminary, only to be expelled because of his homosexuality. He tells of when he drifted through America, of when he nearly drank himself to death, of his many failed love affairs. In addition to being a compelling, honest portrait of a unique character, Witches' Sabbath is also notable for its engagement with literature. Every period of Sachs' life is marked by his dialogue with living and dead authors; Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, all are featured. Thanks to his lifelong obsession with literature, Sachs developed a style all his own: peppered with keen, acerbic portraits of his contemporaries, sometimes picaresque, introspective and often full of irony.… (altro)
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This book came out in a 1950s British translation as Day of Wrath: Confessions of a turbulent youth with the most hilarious cover blurb.

Sachs was a notorious and insatiable homosexual and in his writings and his attitude, in his penchant for betrayal, the feminine temperament is particularly noticeable.


  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
Over leven en dood van Maurice Sachs zijn nu al jaren de meest fantastische legenden en geruchten in omloop. In ons land nam de belangstelling voor de figuur van Sachs sterk toe na het verschijnen van De Bastaard van Violette Leduc, waarin Sachs voorkomt als middelpunt en motor van een aantal schandalen.

Zelf heeft hij eens geschreven, dat hij zijn hele leven één groot schandaal vond. De jood Sachs - hij heette eigenlijk Maurice Ettinghausen - collaboreerde eerst met de nazi's, werd in 1943 toch door de Gestapo opgesloten en 14 april 1945 na een verschrikkelijke dodenmars in de omgeving van Hamburg door een Vlaamse ss-er vermoord.

Zijn lichaam is nooit teruggevonden. Geruchten, dat hij nog zou leven, doen tot vandaag de ronde. In zijn nalatenschap vond men bijna 1500 nimmer gepubliceerde manuscripten! Romans, verhalen, toneelstukken, essays, dagboek, brieven en vooral zijn vele, vele herinneringen. In dit boek vindt men de meest uitgebreide en picareske kroniek van het literaire leven en het vie-de bohème in Parijs en Frankrijk gedurende twee decenniën vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Sachs kende iedereen: de schrijvers Maritain, Cocteau, Gide, Proust, politici, - hij schreef trouwens ook een boek over Thorez -, schilders, fotografen, journalisten, uitgevers, alle vips van zijn tijd, berucht - en beroemdheden uit de onderwereld en uit de wereld van de prostitutie.

De Heksensabbat is een aaneenschakeling van vreemde avonturen en belevenissen. De New York Tinies Review ofBooks noemde het onlangs 'een onmisbare goudmijn van gegevens, over de periode 1920-1940'. In 1942 ontving Sachs' Franse uitgever de laatste brief van Sachs: 'Dit is een armzalig boek, dat vertelt over een even miserabele held’, schrijft hij daarin over Le sabbat.
1 vota losloper | Feb 11, 2010 |
Picareske memoires van een notoir klaploper die steeds weer weggedragen wordt door zijn onuitvoerbare fantasieën en daar telkenmale snel genoeg van krijgt. Sachs werd als schrijver en amoralist sterk bewonderd in de kringen rond het tijdsschrift "tegenstroom", waartoe ook de schrijver-hedonist en vertaler Theo Kars behoorde. Zoals U wellicht weet, lichtte Kars samen met een kompaan de nederlandse PTT voor een aanzienlijke som op. Dit kwam hem op vijftien maanden gevangenis te staan. In een interview gaf hij te kennen dat hij helemaal niet maalde om die periode; je kon er immers ongestoord.......lezen......! ( )
  zerkalo. | Feb 3, 2010 |
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Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral?" He recounts how, as a young man, he befriended Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, both of whom he stole from, as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief). He tells of when, in 1925, he converted to Catholicism and entered a seminary, only to be expelled because of his homosexuality. He tells of when he drifted through America, of when he nearly drank himself to death, of his many failed love affairs. In addition to being a compelling, honest portrait of a unique character, Witches' Sabbath is also notable for its engagement with literature. Every period of Sachs' life is marked by his dialogue with living and dead authors; Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, all are featured. Thanks to his lifelong obsession with literature, Sachs developed a style all his own: peppered with keen, acerbic portraits of his contemporaries, sometimes picaresque, introspective and often full of irony.

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